Emily Faithfull

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Standard Name: Faithfull, Emily
Birth Name: Emily Faithfull
EF , Victorian feminist, was a publisher before she was an author. After years of intermittent journalistic writing and editing, she published a novel and a travel book. She also became well-known as a lecturer.

Connections

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Frances Power Cobbe
In treating the need for other pursuits for spinsters and widows she touches on the topical subjects of religious sisterhoods, female doctors, higher education for women, female philanthropists such as Maria Rye , and feminist...
Textual Production Emily Davies
The paper was published as a pamphlet later in the year by Emily Faithfull at the Victoria Press .
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.
Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable.
75
Textual Production George Eliot
GE declined an invitation from Emily Faithfull to write a story for the Victoria Magazine.
Hands, Timothy. A George Eliot Chronology. G. K. Hall.
84
Textual Production Sarah Stickney Ellis
SSE published with Emily Faithfull at the Victoria Press a Story in Verse entitled Janet, One of Many, treating the controversial figure of the fallen woman.
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.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1823 (4 October 1862): 431
Textual Production Mary Taylor
Emily Faithfull at the Victoria Press published a collection of MT 's most popular essays: The First Duty of Women: A Series of Articles Reprinted from the Victoria Magazine, 1865-1870.
Taylor, Mary. The First Duty of Women. Emily Faithfull.
xxv
Textual Production Harriet Martineau
HM wrote on topics related to women and supported a wide range of feminist causes throughout her career. She sent a letter conveying her warm and unrestricted sympathy
Martineau, Harriet. Harriet Martineau on Women. Editor Yates, Gayle Graham, Rutgers University Press.
75
to the participants in the Women's...
Textual Production Isa Craig
This volume included contributions by herself, Bessie Rayner Parkes , and Mary Howitt , as well as two poems by the Rossettis: Christina 's A Royal Princess and Dante Gabriel 's Sudden Light. The...
Textual Production Isa Craig
Kemble's work had appeared only a few months before Emily Faithfull published this shorter and more concentrated account.
Textual Production Bessie Rayner Parkes
As editor of the new English Woman's Journal from April 1857, BRP saw the paper as representing the Working Woman, a term that she defined as intended to include all women who are actively...
Textual Production Emily Davies
ED served for ten months as editor of the Victoria Magazine, a general-interest monthly with a feminist emphasis founded by Emily Faithfull .
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany.
73-4
Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable.
77
Textual Features Janet Hamilton
The vigour and originality of her voice on women's issues requires greater recognition, ranging as it does from the satiric Crinoline, to Contrasted Scenes from Real Life which juxtaposes the earthly lot of Lady Emily Hay
Textual Features Charlotte Yonge
This novel mocks female self-assertion as absurd and inappropriate, through the experience of Rachel Curtis. CY seems to be writing of pitfalls and temptations which she had found it hard yet necessary to resist. Readers...
Publishing Christina Rossetti
Appropriately, this poem in which CR places herself in a specifically female lineage of poets first appeared in May 1863 in the inaugural issue of the feminist Victoria Magazine, edited by Emily Faithfull .
Rossetti, Christina. The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Editor Crump, Rebecca W., Louisiana State University Press.
1: 288
Publishing Mary Taylor
MT published more than twenty articles, primarily addressing issues surrounding women, work, and economic independence, in Emily Faithfull 's Victoria Magazine.
Murray, Janet Horowitz. “The First Duty of Women: Mary Taylor’s Writings in <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Victoria Magazine</span&gt”;. Victorian Periodicals Review, Vol.
22
, No. 4, pp. 141-7.
142, 147
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

Timeline

March 1858: The English Woman's Journal, a monthly magazine...

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March 1858

The English Woman's Journal, a monthly magazine on the theory and practice of organised feminism, began publication in London, with financial support from Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and others, under the editorship of...

7 July 1859: The first meeting of the Society for Promoting...

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7 July 1859

The first meeting of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women was held in London; founding members included Anna Jameson , Emily Faithfull , Jessie Boucherett , Adelaide Procter , Bessie Rayner Parkes , Isa Craig , and Sarah Lewin .

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

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October 1859

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.

20 March 1863: The executive of the Ladies' London Emancipation...

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20 March 1863

The executive of the Ladies' London Emancipation Society first convened at the home of Mentia Taylor ; the Society aimed to enlist British sympathy for the North in the US Civil War.

August 1864: The English Woman's Journal, a practical...

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August 1864

The English Woman's Journal, a practical and theoretical source of organized feminism from London, merged into The Alexandra Magazine and English Woman's Journal.

February 1876: Emma Paterson launched, as editor, the first...

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February 1876

Emma Paterson launched, as editor, the first issue of the Women's Union Journal, a monthly publication of the Women's Protective and Provident League , an organization founded by Paterson in London in July 1874...

February 1876: Emma Paterson, in association with Emily...

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February 1876

Emma Paterson , in association with Emily Faithfull and with the help of Henrietta Müller , founded the Women's Co-operative Printing Society in London. The Society lasted until the 1950s.

26 February 1876: Women and Work, a practical guide to employment...

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26 February 1876

Women and Work, a practical guide to employment for middle-class women, ended publication in London.

By 15 July 1876: Emma Paterson, in association with Emily...

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By 15 July 1876

Emma Paterson , in association with Emily Faithfull , founded the cooperative Women's Printing Society in London.

June 1880: Victoria Magazine, produced by Emily Faithfull...

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June 1880

Victoria Magazine, produced by Emily Faithfull at the Victoria Press in London, ended publication.

Texts

Faithfull, Emily. Change upon Change. Emily Faithfull, 1868.
Faithfull, Emily. On Some of the Drawbacks Connected with the Present Employment of Women. Emily Faithfull, 1862.
Faithfull, Emily. “Preface”. The Victoria Regia, edited by Adelaide Procter, Emily Faithfull, 1861, p. v - viii.
Faithfull, Emily. The Victoria Regia. Editor Procter, Adelaide, Emily Faithfull, 1861.
Faithfull, Emily. Three Visits to America. D. Douglas, 1884.
Faithfull, Emily. “Victoria Press”. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and the Langham Place Group, edited by Candida Ann Lacey, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987, pp. 281-6.
Faithfull, Emily. “Women Compositors”. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and the Langham Place Group, edited by Candida Ann Lacey, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987, pp. 287-91.