National Association for the Promotion of Social Science

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Author summary Isa Craig
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...
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.
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Hastings drew criticism in the press for his bold appointment of a woman...
Textual Production Emily Davies
ED 's paper Medicine as a Profession for Women was read by Russell Gurney at the Social Science Congress in London.
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Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable.
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Textual Production Emily Davies
Emily Davies presented her paper On Secondary Instruction as Relating to Girls to a meeting of the Social Science Association .
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press.
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Textual Production Emily Davies
ED 's paper entitled The Application of Funds to the Education of Girls was read at a meeting of the Education Department of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science .
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Textual Production Emily Davies
ED regularly wrote papers for the Congress . By the time of her candidacy for the London School Board in 1870, she was giving public speeches.
Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable.
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Textual Production Emily Faithfull
EF 's Social Science Congress paper on the Victoria Press appeared in The English Woman's Journal, seven months after the press was launched.
Faithfull, Emily. “Victoria Press”. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and the Langham Place Group, edited by Candida Ann Lacey, Routledge and Kegan Paul, pp. 281-6.
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Textual Production Emily Faithfull
EF 's Social Science Congress paper on Women Compositors announced that the Victoria Press was self-supporting after eighteen months.
Faithfull, Emily. “Women Compositors”. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and the Langham Place Group, edited by Candida Ann Lacey, Routledge and Kegan Paul, pp. 287-91.
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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.
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...
Textual Features Emily Faithfull
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,
Faithfull, Emily. “Victoria Press”. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and the Langham Place Group, edited by Candida Ann Lacey, Routledge and Kegan Paul, pp. 281-6.
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explaining that the...
Textual Production Emily Faithfull
EF also published Mary Merryweather 's Experience of Factory Life.
Fredeman, William E. “Emily Faithfull and the Victoria Press: An Experiment in Sociological Bibliography”. The Library, Vol.
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As a publisher she produced a high proportion of texts by female authors, including Frances Power Cobbe , Sarah Stickney Ellis , Louisa Twining
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.
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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.
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Jameson, Anna Brownell. Anna Jameson: Letters and Friendships (1812-1860). Editor Erskine, Beatrice Caroline, T. Fisher Unwin.
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Textual Production Florence Nightingale
FN 's paper Life or Death in India was read at a meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science in Norwich.
The title is related to that of her essay...

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