National Association for the Promotion of Social Science

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Textual Production Florence Nightingale
Two papers by FN were read before an Edinburgh meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science ; they later formed her influential work Notes on Hospitals.
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Textual Production Florence Nightingale
FN 's essay promoting sanitary reform, How People May Live and Not Die in India, was read on her behalf at the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science Congress in Edinburgh.
Nightingale, Florence. Ever Yours, Florence Nightingale. Editors Vicinus, Martha and Bea Nergaard, Harvard University Press.
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Bishop, William John, and Sue Goldie. A Bio-Bibliography of Florence Nightingale. Dawsons for the International Council of Nurses.
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Textual Production Florence Nightingale
FN 's Note on the Aboriginal Races of Australia was read at the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science Congress at York.
Bishop, William John, and Sue Goldie. A Bio-Bibliography of Florence Nightingale. Dawsons for the International Council of Nurses.
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Textual Production Florence Nightingale
FN 's paper Life or Death in India was read at a meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science in Norwich.
The title is related to that of her essay...
Textual Production Isa Craig
This was part of her work as assistant secretary of the Association ; she edited the Transactions until 1866. (It ran until 1886). Many of the speeches were delivered by IC 's Langham Place colleagues...
Textual Production Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
BLSB 's paper Reasons for the Enfranchisement of Women was read before the Social Science Association in Manchester.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press.
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Textual Production Emily Davies
ED 's paper Medicine as a Profession for Women was read by Russell Gurney at the Social Science Congress in London.
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Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable.
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Textual Production Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
BLSB wrote regularly on feminist topics for the Journal and other periodicals; her articles were often based on papers delivered for the Kensington Society or at the annual meetings of the Social Science Association .
Textual Production Emily Davies
Emily Davies presented her paper On Secondary Instruction as Relating to Girls to a meeting of the Social Science Association .
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press.
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Textual Production Bessie Rayner Parkes
BRP spoke on several occasions, beginning in October 1859, at assemblies of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science on issues connected with women's employment.
Textual Production Emily Davies
ED 's paper entitled The Application of Funds to the Education of Girls was read at a meeting of the Education Department of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science .
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Textual Production Emily Davies
ED regularly wrote papers for the Congress . By the time of her candidacy for the London School Board in 1870, she was giving public speeches.
Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable.
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Textual Production Jessie Boucherett
It had already been read, that August, at the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science .
Textual Production Emily Faithfull
EF 's Social Science Congress paper on the Victoria Press appeared in The English Woman's Journal, seven months after the press was launched.
Faithfull, Emily. “Victoria Press”. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and the Langham Place Group, edited by Candida Ann Lacey, Routledge and Kegan Paul, pp. 281-6.
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Textual Production Emily Faithfull
EF 's Social Science Congress paper on Women Compositors announced that the Victoria Press was self-supporting after eighteen months.
Faithfull, Emily. “Women Compositors”. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and the Langham Place Group, edited by Candida Ann Lacey, Routledge and Kegan Paul, pp. 287-91.
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October 1857: The National Association for the Promotion...

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October 1857: The National Association for the Promotion...

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October 1857

October 1859: The Society for Promoting the Employment...

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October 1859

Late 1859: The offices of The English Woman's Journal...

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Late 1859

The offices of The English Woman's Journal moved from Cavendish Square to 19 Langham Place, where a ladies' club was also planned.

25 March 1860: Emily Faithfull established the Victoria...

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25 March 1860

Emily Faithfull established the Victoria Press at 9 Great Coram Street, near Russell Square, London.

September 1860: Emily Faithfull and Bessie Rayner Parkes...

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September 1860

Emily Faithfull and Bessie Rayner Parkes spoke on the employment of women in printing trades at the fourth annual conference of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science held in Glasgow.

1861: Maria Rye established the Female Middle Class...

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1861

Maria Rye established the Female Middle Class Emigration Society in response to the scarcity of jobs in England for girls and women.

1862: The London meeting of the National Association...

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1862

The London meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science accepted a paper from Emily Davies on Medicine as a Profession for Women.

21 April 1868: A Married Women's Property Bill prepared...

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21 April 1868

A Married Women's Property Bill prepared by the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science was sponsored by George Shaw Lefevre and John Stuart Mill ; it stalled because the vote in the House

By mid-October 1869: The forerunner of the National Association...

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By mid-October 1869

The forerunner of the National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts was founded in response to extensionist leanings at the Social Science Association Congress at Bristol.

17 November 1871: The National Union for the Education of Girls...

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17 November 1871

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