National Association for the Promotion of Social Science

EF also published Mary Merryweather 's Experience of Factory Life. As a publisher she produced a high proportion of texts by female authors, including Frances Power Cobbe , Sarah Stickney Ellis , Louisa Twining

It was a response to chauvinistic views expressed about women's public participation in the meetings of the NAPSS , particularly J. Beavington Atkinson 's piece in Blackwood's for October 1861.

EF outlines the aims of the Victoria Press as originating in the simple fact of women being constantly thrown upon the world to get their daily bread by their own exertions, explaining that the...

In December 1861 JB 's Local Societies, a paper first read that August at the annual NAPSS meeting, was printed in the English Woman's Journal.

MC was a frequent contributor of articles to periodicals and of papers to conferences, and many of her short pieces were later reprinted as free-standing pamphlets. In 1857 her Essay on 'Food, Labour, and Rest...

Isa Craig was a poet, journalist, editor, and novelist whose literary work was informed by the concerns of the mid-Victorian feminist movement. Her verse appeared in several periodicals, including the feminist English Woman's Journal...

LB attended the Social Science Association meeting in Manchester.

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...

JB and Bessie Rayner Parkes delivered papers at the Congress of the Social Science Association at Bradford, addressing issues relating to women's employment.

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...

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. Though all...

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.

During the 1870s, MG and Emily Shirreff attended annual meetings and appeared on programmes of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science .

IC delivered a paper at Liverpool to the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science , entitled Emigration as a Preventive Agency.

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.