Faithfull, Emily. “Preface”. The Victoria Regia, edited by Adelaide Procter, Emily Faithfull, p. v - viii.
v-vii
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Emily Faithfull | EF
's preface to the volume again outlines in a matter-of-fact way the aims of the Society for the Promotion of the Employment of Women
and the Victoria Press
. Faithfull, Emily. “Preface”. The Victoria Regia, edited by Adelaide Procter, Emily Faithfull, p. v - viii. v-vii |
politics | Emily Faithfull | The opening for business of the Victoria Press
(in Russell Square, London) was a triumph for EF
. Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany. 51-2 |
Occupation | Emily Faithfull | The Victoria Press
changed its focus from printing to publishing. Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany. 57 |
Occupation | Emily Faithfull | EF
published Victoria Magazine, the journal of the Victoria Press
. Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany. 73 |
Occupation | Emily Faithfull | Financial and other difficulties forced EF
to sell part of the Victoria Press
to William Wilfred Head
. Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany. 58 |
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. 281 |
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. 287 |
Occupation | Matilda Hays | By 1861 MH
was a partner in the Victoria Press
. Her involvement, however, was short-lived, and she never invested any funds in the press. Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany. 52, 238n10 |
Publishing | Florence Nightingale | It was written in response to the Royal Commission on the Sanitary State of the Army in India
and provided a shortened, and more accessible, version of FN
's report on the commission's findings. Bishop, William John, and Sue Goldie. A Bio-Bibliography of Florence Nightingale. Dawsons for the International Council of Nurses. 57, 63 |
Textual Production | Charlotte Grace O'Brien | Someone named Charlotte O'Brien
began publishing in 1855 (when CGOB
was probably not yet ten) a series of little books for children, mostly now rare. After the first, The Coral Necklace, came A Simple... |
politics | Bessie Rayner Parkes | Besides editing the English Woman's Journal, BRP
collaborated in 1859 with other group members Emily Faithfull
and Adelaide Procter
to found the Victoria Press
(established on 25 March 1860). Levine, Philippa. Feminist Lives in Victorian England: Private Roles and Public Commitment. Basil Blackwell. 9 Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research. 240: 187 |
Literary responses | Adelaide Procter | In the Athenæum, William Hepworth Dixon
, while he praised the book as a graceful aid and service rendered to a very excellent institution and as abundant proof that women at the Press
could... |
Dedications | Adelaide Procter | AP
edited The Victoria Regia: A Volume of Original Contributions in Poetry and Prose, with a preface by Emily Faithfull
, published by Faithfull at the Victoria Press
, set by women compositors, and... |
Author summary | Adelaide Procter | AP
's poetry, which appeared almost exclusively in Household Words and All the Year Round, was among the most popular of the Victorian era. An active mid-Victorian feminist, she was a member of the... |
Anthologization | Christina Rossetti | After the appearance of Goblin Market, CR
had less difficulty placing her verse in periodicals. The tide had already started to turn in the 1850s, when her work began to appear in journals including... |
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