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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.
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| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Friends, Associates | Matilda Hays | She remained friends with Anna Jameson
, Isa Craig
, and Emily Faithfull
, but the biographer of the last-named surmises that Hays's loyalty to Faithfull (whose reputation was tarnished because of her involvement in... |
| 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 |
| Leisure and Society | Jean Ingelow | JI
became a member of the Portfolio Society
, to which Adelaide Procter
, Emily Faithfull
, and several other members of the Langham Place Group
also belonged. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 35 Armstrong, Isobel et al., editors. Nineteenth-Century Women Poets. Clarendon Press. 401 |
| politics | Anna Brownell Jameson | ABJ
became a mentor to a group of young reformers and educational pioneers, including Adelaide Procter
, Emily Faithfull
, and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
. She sometimes provided meeting space for the group, both... |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Kingsford | AK
's wide-ranging interests brought her into contact with an array of people known to a greater or lesser extent in the intellectual life of the day. Through the women's movement she met Barbara Bodichon |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Publishing | Florence Nightingale | It was published later in the Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science and also by Emily Faithfull
. Bishop, William John, and Sue Goldie. A Bio-Bibliography of Florence Nightingale. Dawsons for the International Council of Nurses. 89 Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research. 166: 266 |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Adelaide Procter | Other intimate feminist friends of AP
's adult years, in addition to Matilda Hays
, were Bessie Rayner Parkes
and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
. Procter was also a member of the Portfolio Society
... |
| 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>”;. Victorian Periodicals Review, Vol. 22 , No. 4, pp. 141-7. 142, 147 |
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