Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Emily Faithfull
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Standard Name: Faithfull, Emily
Birth Name: Emily Faithfull
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, Victorian feminist, was a publisher before she was an author. After years of intermittent journalistic writing and editing, she published a novel and a travel book. She also became well-known as a lecturer.
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AP
edited The Victoria Regia: A Volume of Original Contributions in Poetry and Prose, with a preface by Emily Faithfull
, published by Faithfull at the Victoria Press
, set by women compositors, and...
Friends, Associates
Emilie Barrington
Before her marriage EB
was a close friend of Emily Faithfull
, one of the few who remained loyal after Faithfull found herself embroiled in scandal.
Westwater, Martha. The Wilson Sisters. Ohio University Press, 1984.
117
Donoghue, Emma. “Author’s Note”. The Sealed Letter, Picador, 2011, pp. 465-74.
468, 470-1
Friends, Associates
Matilda Hays
She remained friends with Anna Jameson
, Isa Craig
, and Emily Faithfull
, but the biographer of the last-named surmises that Hays's loyalty to Faithfull (whose reputation was tarnished because of her involvement in...
Friends, Associates
Emilie Barrington
Emilie Wilson (later EB
) and Emily Faithfull
were inseparable
Westwater, Martha. The Wilson Sisters. Ohio University Press, 1984.
115
friends until they fell out just before Emilie was married. Westwater suggests that they may have been introduced by Bessie Parkes
, whose father,...
Friends, Associates
Jessie Boucherett
Partly through her membership of the Kensington Society
(a social and political discussion group of about fifty women inaugurated in 1865), JB
broadened her acquaintance with significant members of the feminist movement, including Frances Power Cobbe
Friends, Associates
Anna Kingsford
AK
's wide-ranging interests brought her into contact with an array of people known to a greater or lesser extent in the intellectual life of the day. Through the women's movement she met Barbara Bodichon
Emily Faithfull
read a paper by JB
entitled Local Societies for Promoting the Employment of Women at a meeting of the Social Science Association
.
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany, 1994.
236n35
Performance of text
Frances Power Cobbe
FPC
read at the Social Science
Congress in Dublin a paper later published by Emily Faithfull
as Friendless Girls, and How to Help Them, Being an Account of the Preventive Mission at Bristol.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo, http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
116, 118
politics
Anna Brownell Jameson
ABJ
became a mentor to a group of young reformers and educational pioneers, including Adelaide Procter
, Emily Faithfull
, and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
. She sometimes provided meeting space for the group, both...
Timeline
March 1858
The English Woman's Journal, a monthly magazine on the theory and practice of organised feminism, began publication in London, with financial support from Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
and others, under the editorship of...
The English Woman's Journal, a practical and theoretical source of organized feminism from London, merged into The Alexandra Magazine and English Woman's Journal.
Victoria Magazine, produced by Emily Faithfull
at the Victoria Press
in London, ended publication.
Texts
Faithfull, Emily. Change upon Change. Emily Faithfull, 1868.
Faithfull, Emily. On Some of the Drawbacks Connected with the Present Employment of Women. Emily Faithfull, 1862.
Faithfull, Emily. “Preface”. The Victoria Regia, edited by Adelaide Procter, Emily Faithfull, 1861, p. v - viii.
Faithfull, Emily. The Victoria Regia. Editor Procter, Adelaide, Emily Faithfull, 1861.
Faithfull, Emily. Three Visits to America. D. Douglas, 1884.
Faithfull, Emily. “Victoria Press”. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and the Langham Place Group, edited by Candida Ann Lacey, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987, pp. 281-6.
Faithfull, Emily. “Women Compositors”. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and the Langham Place Group, edited by Candida Ann Lacey, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987, pp. 287-91.