National Association for the Promotion of Social Science

IC was chosen for this position by George Hastings , lawyer, reformer, and general secretary of the Social Science Association . Hastings drew criticism in the press for his bold appointment of a woman...

This was part of her work as assistant secretary of the Association ; she edited the Transactions until 1866. (It ran until 1886). Many of the speeches were delivered by IC 's Langham Place colleagues...

ED 's paper Medicine as a Profession for Women was read by Russell Gurney at the Social Science Congress in London.

Emily Davies presented her paper On Secondary Instruction as Relating to Girls to a meeting of the Social Science Association .

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 .

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.

EF 's Social Science Congress paper on the Victoria Press appeared in The English Woman's Journal, seven months after the press was launched.

EF 's Social Science Congress paper on Women Compositors announced that the Victoria Press was self-supporting after eighteen months.

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.

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...

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...

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

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

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.

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.