National Association for the Promotion of Social Science

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politics Lydia Becker
LB attended the Social Science Association meeting in Manchester.
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 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 .
politics Jessie Boucherett
In 1859, along with Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and Adelaide Procter , JB launched the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women (SPEW). They held their first meeting on 19 June 1859.
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany.
232n1
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
“Obituary: Miss Emilia Jessie Boucherett”. Times, p. 8.
Though all...
Textual Production Jessie Boucherett
It had already been read, that August, at the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science .
Publishing Jessie Boucherett
In December 1861 JB 's Local Societies, a paper first read that August at the annual NAPSS meeting, was printed in the English Woman's Journal.
Lacey, Candida Ann, editor. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and the Langham Place Group. Routledge.
250
politics Jessie Boucherett
JB and Bessie Rayner Parkes delivered papers at the Congress of the Social Science Association at Bradford, addressing issues relating to women's employment.
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany.
47
Publishing Mary Carpenter
MC was a frequent contributor of articles to periodicals and of papers to conferences, and many of her short pieces were later reprinted as free-standing pamphlets. In 1857 her Essay on 'Food, Labour, and Rest...
Performance of text Frances Power Cobbe
FPC gave a paper, co-written with Margaret Elliot , at the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science Congress in Glasgow, which then appeared as the 14-page pamphlet, Destitute Incurables in Workhouses.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press.
113-14
Performance of text Frances Power Cobbe
FPC read at the Social Science Congress in Dublin a paper later published by Emily Faithfull as Friendless Girls, and How to Help Them, Being an Account of the Preventive Mission at Bristol.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press.
116, 118
Occupation Frances Power Cobbe
Together Elliot and Cobbe attempted to make the terminally ill patients of workhouse sick wards more comfortable by bringing better furniture, tea, and magazines and books to the wards. FPC also managed to persuade the...
Textual Production Frances Power Cobbe
It was a response to chauvinistic views expressed about women's public participation in the meetings of the NAPSS , particularly J. Beavington Atkinson 's piece in Blackwood's for October 1861.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press.
118-19
Occupation Isa Craig
IC was appointed assistant secretary to the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (which was actually launched in October).
Kamm, Josephine, and Mary Stocks. Rapiers and Battleaxes: The Women’s Movement And Its Aftermath. George Allen and Unwin.
102
McCrone, Kathleen E. “The National Association for the Promotion of Social Science and the Advancement of Victorian Women”. Atlantis, Vol.
8
, No. 1, pp. 44-66.
46
Goldman, Lawrence. Science, Reform, and Politics in Victorian Britain: The Social Science Association 1857-1886. Cambridge University Press.
1
Performance of text Isa Craig
IC delivered a paper at Liverpool to the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science , entitled Emigration as a Preventive Agency.
Craig, Isa. “Emigration as a Preventive Agency”. English Woman’s Journal, Vol.
2
, No. 11, pp. 289-97.
289
Author summary Isa Craig
Isa Craig was a poet, journalist, editor, and novelist whose literary work was informed by the concerns of the mid-Victorian feminist movement. Her verse appeared in several periodicals, including the feminist English Woman's Journal...

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

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October 1857

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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