Emily Faithfull
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Standard Name: Faithfull, Emily
Birth Name: Emily Faithfull
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, 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
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Emilie Barrington | Before her marriage EB
was a close friend of Emily Faithfull
, one of the few who remained loyal after Faithfull found herself embroiled in scandal. Westwater, Martha. The Wilson Sisters. Ohio University Press. 117 Donoghue, Emma. “Author’s Note”. The Sealed Letter, Picador, pp. 465-74. 468, 470-1 |
Friends, Associates | Emilie Barrington | Emilie Wilson (later EB
) and Emily Faithfull
were inseparable Westwater, Martha. The Wilson Sisters. Ohio University Press. 115 |
Occupation | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | Jessie Boucherett
and Adelaide Procter
served as the honorary secretaries, Sarah Lewin
and Emily Crow
acted as executive secretaries, and BLSB
, Bessie Rayner Parkes, and Emily Faithfull
served on the advisory committee. |
Performance of text | Jessie Boucherett | Emily Faithfull
read a paper by JB
entitled Local Societies for Promoting the Employment of Women at a meeting of the Social Science Association
. Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany. 236n35 |
Friends, Associates | Jessie Boucherett | Partly through her membership of the Kensington Society
(a social and political discussion group of about fifty women inaugurated in 1865), JB
broadened her acquaintance with significant members of the feminist movement, including Frances Power Cobbe |
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 |
Friends, Associates | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
was a friend of Emily Faithfull
, Geraldine Jewsbury
, and Rosa Bonheur
, and she knew Josephine Butler
, Augusta Webster
, Lady Battersea
, Emily Pfeiffer
, Anne Thackeray Ritchie
, Helen Taylor |
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 | 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 | 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 |
Friends, Associates | Emily Davies | In London, ED
met John Stuart Mill
and Harriet Taylor
. At Emily Faithfull
's parties, frequented by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, Isa Craig
, and Bessie Rayner Parkes, she met Anthony Trollope
, Louis Blanc |
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 |
Timeline
March 1858: The English Woman's Journal, a monthly magazine...
Women writers item
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...
National or international item
October 1859
The Society for Promoting the Employment of Women
officially joined with the Social Science Association
.
25 March 1860: Emily Faithfull established the Victoria...
Women writers item
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, in association with Emily...
Women writers item
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.
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...
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...
Writing climate item
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...
Building item
June 1880
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.