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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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
friends until they fell out just before Emilie was married. Westwater suggests that they may have been introduced by Bessie Parkes , whose father,...
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.
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Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press.
116, 118
Friends, Associates Frances Power Cobbe
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 .
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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.
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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...

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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, 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.

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...

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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.