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National Association for the Promotion of Social Science
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
spoke on several occasions, beginning in October 1859, at assemblies of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science
on issues connected with women's employment. |
| Textual Production | Florence Nightingale | Two papers by FN
were read before an Edinburgh meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science
; they later formed her influential work Notes on Hospitals. |
| Textual Production | Florence Nightingale | FN
's essay promoting sanitary reform, How People May Live and Not Die in India, was read on her behalf at the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science
Congress in Edinburgh. Nightingale, Florence. Ever Yours, Florence Nightingale. Editors Vicinus, Martha and Bea Nergaard, Harvard University Press. 442 Bishop, William John, and Sue Goldie. A Bio-Bibliography of Florence Nightingale. Dawsons for the International Council of Nurses. 63 |
| Textual Production | Florence Nightingale | FN
's Note on the Aboriginal Races of Australia was read at the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science
Congress at York. Bishop, William John, and Sue Goldie. A Bio-Bibliography of Florence Nightingale. Dawsons for the International Council of Nurses. 88-9 |
| 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... |
| 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. 207 Webb, Val. Florence Nightingale: The Making of a Radical Theologian. Chalice. 114 |
| 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. xiv Jameson, Anna Brownell. Anna Jameson: Letters and Friendships (1812-1860). Editor Erskine, Beatrice Caroline, T. Fisher Unwin. 336-7 |
| 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. 106-7 |
| 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. 282 |
| 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. 29 , No. 2, pp. 139-64. 162 |
| 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. 281 |
| 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. 287 |
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.
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.
October 1859: The Society for Promoting the Employment...
National or international item
October 1859
The Society for Promoting the Employment of Women
officially joined with the Social Science Association
.
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.
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.
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.
1861: Maria Rye established the Female Middle Class...
National or international item
1861
Maria Rye
established the Female Middle Class Emigration Society
in response to the scarcity of jobs in England for girls and women.
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.
21 April 1868: A Married Women's Property Bill prepared...
National or international item
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...
National or international item
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.
17 November 1871: The National Union for the Education of Girls...
National or international item
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.
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