Historian Perry Williams
cites the founding date of the Association as 1857.
Williams, Perry. “The Laws of Health: Women, Medicine and Sanitary Reform, 1850-1890”. Science and Sensibility: Gender and Scientific Enquiry, 1780-1945, edited by Marina Benjamin, Basil Blackwell, 1991, pp. 60-88.
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McCrone, Kathleen E. “The National Association for the Promotion of Social Science and the Advancement of Victorian Women”. Atlantis, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1982, pp. 44-66.
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Goldman, Lawrence. Science, Reform, and Politics in Victorian Britain: The Social Science Association 1857-1886. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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Williams, Perry. “The Laws of Health: Women, Medicine and Sanitary Reform, 1850-1890”. Science and Sensibility: Gender and Scientific Enquiry, 1780-1945, edited by Marina Benjamin, Basil Blackwell, 1991, pp. 60-88.