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politics | Emily Davies | ED
established a Northumberland and Durham Branch of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women
after her London visit. Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable. 53 Forster, Margaret. Significant Sisters. Secker and Warburg. 141 |
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 | Anna Swanwick | The husband drew up his will in 1884, leaving the bulk of his fortune for women's education and clearly explaining why. It is women who have hitherto had the worst of life, and I therefore... |
politics | Emily Faithfull | EF
served as secretary of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women
(SPEW). Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany. 43 |
politics | Emily Faithfull | EF
and Bessie Parkes
founded the Edinburgh branch of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women
(SPEW). Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany. 44 |
Publishing | Adelaide Procter | In connection with her work as a member of the newly formed Society for Promoting the Employment of Women
, AP
published Women Watchmakers of Christchurch in the English Woman's Journal. Gregory, Gill. The Life and Work of Adelaide Proctor. Ashgate. 27 |
Textual Features | Emily Faithfull | EF
supported the suffrage cause by lecturing on women's suffrage and by reporting on the activities of the National Society for Women's Suffrage
in her periodicals. Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany. 152, 157 |
Textual Features | Charlotte Yonge | This novel mocks female self-assertion as absurd and inappropriate, through the experience of Rachel Curtis. CY
seems to be writing of pitfalls and temptations which she had found it hard yet necessary to resist. Readers... |
Textual Production | Harriet Martineau | HM
wrote on topics related to women and supported a wide range of feminist causes throughout her career. She sent a letter conveying her warm and unrestricted sympathy Martineau, Harriet. Harriet Martineau on Women. Editor Yates, Gayle Graham, Rutgers University Press. 75 |
Textual Production | Emily Davies | Under ED
's editorship, the periodical combined literary contributions (such as poetry by Christina Rossetti
and fiction by Thomas Adolphus Trollope
) with book reviews, reports of bodies such as the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Emily Faithfull | EF
's preface to the volume again outlines in a matter-of-fact way the aims of the Society for the Promotion of the Employment of Women
and the Victoria Press
. Faithfull, Emily. “Preface”. The Victoria Regia, edited by Adelaide Procter, Emily Faithfull, p. v - viii. v-vii |
Wealth and Poverty | Emily Jane Pfeiffer | Money from the Pfeiffer trust was also given to Newnham
, Girton
, and Somerville College
s, and many other institutions and agencies promoting women's education, including the Maria Grey Training College
and the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women |
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