National Association for the Promotion of Social Science

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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 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 Jessie Boucherett
It had already been read, that August, at the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science .
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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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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, No. 2, pp. 139-64.
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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
Textual Production Frances Power Cobbe
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.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press.
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