Langham Place Group

BLSB and the Langham Place feminists strongly supported John Stuart Mill 's campaign for office.

BLSB 's importance in the history of bourgeois feminism and her witty and incisive style have led to considerable attention from second-wave feminist scholars. A number of her works, including A Brief Summary and Women...

Helen Blackburn recounts that JB met Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and Adelaide Procter after casually picking up a copy of the English Woman's Journal at a railway station. She was so impressed with the contents...

After the presentation of the Langham Place Group 's suffrage petition on 7 June 1866 FPC began a campaign to get a follow-up piece into the The Spectator arguing that the addition of uneducated male...

The association with Parkes led to IC 's lengthy involvement with the mid-Victorian feminist movement, which coalesced through the activities and publications of the Langham Place Group. She is often referred to by historians...

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 edited the Langham Place Group 's unofficial organ, The English Woman's Journal, until some time the following year.

When, late in life, she forbade the writing of an intimate biography but expressed her willingness that a sketch should be written, she thought such a sketch might advantageously cover both herself and Madame Bodichon...

ED quickly became involved with the Langham Place circle . In 1859 Jane Crow became the Secretary of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women , and went to live at the Langham Place office.

This story is equally remarkable for the portraits of Mr Tryan (the Evangelical clergyman who not only converts Janet to his beliefs but succeeds in sparking her will to regeneration) and of Janet herself, but...

As a member of the Langham Place GroupEF counted most of the women activists of the day among her friends. Her far-flung circle of associates included Adelaide Procter and Frances Power Cobbe .

EF suffered in various ways as a result of the trial. The sense that she had prevaricated, at the very least, alienated many of her associates on The English Woman's Journal, including Emily Davies

North and South reflects the debate over middle-class female employment which had been powerfully voiced by Anna Jameson , to whom EG confessed herself greatly indebted in a letter of 1855. The case for...

Working on the English Woman's Journal strengthened MH 's connection to members of the Langham Place Group . The tie that she formed with with Theodosia, Lady Monson , lasted into her obscure later years...

By 1861 MH was a partner in the Victoria Press . Her involvement, however, was short-lived, and she never invested any funds in the press. By 1860 rumours were apparently circulating about her...