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AbstractThis article examines the manuscript newsletters received by two women in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Anne Pole and Susannah Newey. Although women have often been excluded from discussion of manuscript news circulation, these women's newsletters, especially the parliamentary news they contained, reveal important information about the turn of the 18th‐century news industry. Both women received and shared parliamentary news provided by paid news writers in London. Their roles as recipients and circulators of manuscript newsletters elucidate how the news industry was developing and professionalising at a moment that also saw the takeoff of the printed newspaper.