National Association for the Promotion of Social Science

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.

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.

IC was appointed assistant secretary to the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (which was actually launched in October).

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

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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.

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...