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.
Albumen carte-de-visite of Emily Faithfull taken some time in the mid to late 1860s. (A carte-de-visite was a photo in the small size of the visiting card.) She is wearing a single-button jacket with white shirt collar and bow tie, looking quite sharp. Her hair is parted in the middle and slicked to the sides.

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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.
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Author summary Mary Taylor
A committed proponent of female economic independence, MT was the author of some twenty articles on this and other feminist topics for Emily Faithfull 's Victoria Magazine during the 1860s and 1870s. Many of these...
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...

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