National Association for the Promotion of Social Science

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Performance of text Isa Craig
IC delivered a paper at Liverpool to the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science , entitled Emigration as a Preventive Agency.
Craig, Isa. “Emigration as a Preventive Agency”. English Woman’s Journal, Vol.
2
, No. 11, pp. 289-97.
289
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...
Occupation Frances Power Cobbe
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...
Occupation Isa Craig
IC was appointed assistant secretary to the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (which was actually launched in October).
Kamm, Josephine, and Mary Stocks. Rapiers and Battleaxes: The Women’s Movement And Its Aftermath. George Allen and Unwin.
102
McCrone, Kathleen E. “The National Association for the Promotion of Social Science and the Advancement of Victorian Women”. Atlantis, Vol.
8
, No. 1, pp. 44-66.
46
Goldman, Lawrence. Science, Reform, and Politics in Victorian Britain: The Social Science Association 1857-1886. Cambridge University Press.
1
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
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.
193
Hastings drew criticism in the press for his bold appointment of a woman...
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
She was also a member of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science .
Webb, Val. Florence Nightingale: The Making of a Radical Theologian. Chalice.
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