National Association for the Promotion of Social Science

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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.
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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...
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.
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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...
Textual Features Emily Faithfull
EF outlines the aims of the Victoria Press as originating in the simple fact of women being constantly thrown upon the world to get their daily bread by their own exertions,
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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explaining that the...
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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Textual Production Emily Faithfull
EF also published Mary Merryweather 's Experience of Factory Life.
Fredeman, William E. “Emily Faithfull and the Victoria Press: An Experiment in Sociological Bibliography”. The Library, Vol.
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As a publisher she produced a high proportion of texts by female authors, including Frances Power Cobbe , Sarah Stickney Ellis , Louisa Twining
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.
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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...

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