National Association for the Promotion of Social Science

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Occupation Florence Nightingale
The following year she devised ways to standardize statistics for hospital use.
Nightingale, Florence. Ever Yours, Florence Nightingale. Editors Vicinus, Martha and Bea Nergaard, Harvard University Press, 1990.
207
She was also a member of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science .
Webb, Val. Florence Nightingale: The Making of a Radical Theologian. Chalice, 2002.
114
Occupation Emily Faithfull
This was an important year for the Victoria Press, and consequently for EF . In addition to printing The English Woman's Journal, the Transactions of the Social Science Association, and a number of...
Occupation Frances Power Cobbe
Together Elliot and Cobbe attempted to make the terminally ill patients of workhouse sick wards more comfortable by bringing better furniture, tea, and magazines and books to the wards. FPC also managed to persuade the...
Occupation Isa Craig
IC was appointed assistant secretary to the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (which was actually launched in October).
Kamm, Josephine, and Mary Stocks. Rapiers and Battleaxes: The Women’s Movement And Its Aftermath. George Allen and Unwin, 1966.
102
McCrone, Kathleen E. “The National Association for the Promotion of Social Science and the Advancement of Victorian Women”. Atlantis, Vol.
8
, No. 1, 1982, pp. 44-66.
46
Goldman, Lawrence. Science, Reform, and Politics in Victorian Britain: The Social Science Association 1857-1886. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
1
Occupation Isa Craig
IC was chosen for this position by George Hastings , lawyer, reformer, and general secretary of the Social Science Association .
Hirsch, Pam. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon 1827-1891: Feminist, Artist and Rebel. Chatto and Windus, 1998.
193
Hastings drew criticism in the press for his bold appointment of a woman...
Occupation Anna Brownell Jameson
ABJ made her final public appearance at the Bradford meeting of the Social Science Association , where her comments on papers on women's employment were heard with awe.
Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press, 1997.
xiv
Jameson, Anna Brownell. Anna Jameson: Letters and Friendships (1812-1860). Editor Erskine, Beatrice Caroline, T. Fisher Unwin, 1915.
336-7
Performance of text Frances Power Cobbe
FPC gave a paper, co-written with Margaret Elliot , at the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science Congress in Glasgow, which then appeared as the 14-page pamphlet, Destitute Incurables in Workhouses.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
113-14
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, 2004.
116, 118
Performance of text Isa Craig
IC delivered a paper at Liverpool to the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science , entitled Emigration as a Preventive Agency.
Craig, Isa. “Emigration as a Preventive Agency”. English Woman’s Journal, Vol.
2
, No. 11, Jan. 1859, pp. 289-97.
289
politics Jessie Boucherett
In 1859, along with Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and Adelaide Procter , JB launched the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women (SPEW). They held their first meeting on 19 June 1859.
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany, 1994.
232n1
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
“Obituary: Miss Emilia Jessie Boucherett”. Times, 21 Oct. 1905, p. 8.
Though all...
politics Emily Faithfull
The opportunity to do this resulted from a speech they had just given at the annual meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science at Glasgow.
politics Adelaide Procter
Earlier in the year, the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science had appointed AP as member of a committee to consider ways of providing employment opportunities for women. It was an appointment that...
politics Bessie Rayner Parkes
She travelled long distances to speak at Social Science Congress es in October 1859, October 1860, and June 1862, putting herself among the first women to speak (as opposed to writing a paper for someone...
politics Maria Grey
During the 1870s, MG and Emily Shirreff attended annual meetings and appeared on programmes of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science .
Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood, 1979.
106-7
politics Lydia Becker
LB attended the Social Science Association meeting in Manchester.

Timeline

October 1857: The National Association for the Promotion...

National or international item

October 1857

The National Association for the Promotion of Social Science was organized in London.
Fletcher, Sheila. Feminists and Bureaucrats: A Study in the Development of Girls’ Education in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
15
Burstyn, Joan. Victorian Education and the Ideal of Womanhood. Croom Helm, 1980.
25
Fletcher, Sheila. Feminists and Bureaucrats: A Study in the Development of Girls’ Education in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
14-15
Hawes, Frances. Henry Brougham. Jonathan Cape, 1957.
292-3

October 1857: The National Association for the Promotion...

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October 1857

The National Association for the Promotion of Social Science was organized in London.
Fletcher, Sheila. Feminists and Bureaucrats: A Study in the Development of Girls’ Education in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
15
Burstyn, Joan. Victorian Education and the Ideal of Womanhood. Croom Helm, 1980.
25
Fletcher, Sheila. Feminists and Bureaucrats: A Study in the Development of Girls’ Education in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
14-15
Hawes, Frances. Henry Brougham. Jonathan Cape, 1957.
292-3

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

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October 1859

The Society for Promoting the Employment of Women officially joined with the Social Science Association .
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
140, 142

Late 1859: The offices of The English Woman's Journal...

Women writers item

Late 1859

The offices of The English Woman's Journal moved from Cavendish Square to 19 Langham Place, where a ladies' club was also planned.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
140
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 311, 313

September 1860: Emily Faithfull and Bessie Rayner Parkes...

Writing climate item

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.
Reynolds, Siân. Britannica’s Typesetters: Women Compositors in Edwardian England. Edinburgh University Press, 1989.
30-1

1861: Maria Rye established the Female Middle Class...

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1861

Maria Rye established the Female Middle Class Emigration Society in response to the scarcity of jobs in England for girls and women.
Wagner, Gillian. Children of the Empire. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982.
40
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
Parkes, Bessie Rayner. “A Review of the Last Six Years”. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and the Langham Group, edited by Candida Ann Lacey, 2nd edition, Routledge, 2001, pp. 215-22.
220
Women’s Library,. “Appendix 1.4 (1FME): Female Middle Class Emigration Society (FMCES)”. The Women’s Library, 1 Mar. 2006.
1

1862: The London meeting of the National Association...

Building item

1862

The London meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science accepted a paper from Emily Davies on Medicine as a Profession for Women.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
57

21 April 1868: A Married Women's Property Bill prepared...

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21 April 1868

A Married Women's Property Bill prepared by the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science was sponsored by George Shaw Lefevre and John Stuart Mill ; it stalled because the vote in the House

By mid-October 1869: The forerunner of the National Association...

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By mid-October 1869

The forerunner of the National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts was founded in response to extensionist leanings at the Social Science Association Congress at Bristol.
Walkowitz, Judith R. Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
91-2

17 November 1871: The National Union for the Education of Girls...

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17 November 1871

The National Union for the Education of Girls of all Classes above the Elementary was founded by Maria Grey , with her sister Emily Shirreff and others.
Kamm, Josephine. Indicative Past: A Hundred Years of The Girls’ Public Day School Trust. Allen and Unwin, 1971.
40-6, 49
Purvis, June. A History of Women’s Education in England. Open University Press, 1991.
11, 80
Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood, 1979.
174-9

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