Female Middle Class Emigration Society

Connections

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politics	Emma Frances Brooke	EFB became, for about eighteen months, the Honorary Secretary of the Female Middle Class Emigration Society (FMCES). Brooke, Emma Frances, and Jane Lewin. “Correspondence: Female Middle Class Emigration Society”. The Nelson Evening Mail, No. 264. vol. XVII iss. 264 (21 Nov 1882): 2 Women’s Library,. “Appendix 1.4 (1FME): Female Middle Class Emigration Society (FMCES)”. The Women’s Library. 1
Textual Features	Emily Faithfull	EF supported the suffrage cause by lecturing on women's suffrage and by reporting on the activities of the National Society for Women's Suffrage in her periodicals. Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany, 1994. 152, 157 She also publicised the Society for the Promotion of the Employment of Women

1861

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