Emily Faithfull

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Standard Name: Faithfull, Emily
Birth Name: Emily Faithfull
EF , 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.
Albumen carte-de-visite of Emily Faithfull taken some time in the mid to late 1860s. (A carte-de-visite was a photo in the small size of the visiting card.) She is wearing a single-button jacket with white shirt collar and bow tie, looking quite sharp. Her hair is parted in the middle and slicked to the sides.

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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...
Author summary Mary Taylor
A committed proponent of female economic independence, MT was the author of some twenty articles on this and other feminist topics for Emily Faithfull 's Victoria Magazine during the 1860s and 1870s. Many of these...
Publishing Mary Taylor
MT published more than twenty articles, primarily addressing issues surrounding women, work, and economic independence, in Emily Faithfull 's Victoria Magazine.
Murray, Janet Horowitz. “The First Duty of Women: Mary Taylors Writings in Victoria MagazineVictorian Periodicals Review, Vol.
22
, No. 4, 1989, pp. 141-7.
142, 147
Publishing Florence Nightingale
It was published later in the Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science and also by Emily Faithfull .
Bishop, William John, and Sue Goldie. A Bio-Bibliography of Florence Nightingale. Dawsons for the International Council of Nurses, 1962.
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Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research, 1996.
166: 266
Publishing Christina Rossetti
Appropriately, this poem in which CR places herself in a specifically female lineage of poets first appeared in May 1863 in the inaugural issue of the feminist Victoria Magazine, edited by Emily Faithfull .
Rossetti, Christina. The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Editor Crump, Rebecca W., Louisiana State University Press, 1979–1990, 3 vols.
1: 288
Publishing Florence Nightingale
It was written in response to the Royal Commission on the Sanitary State of the Army in India and provided a shortened, and more accessible, version of FN 's report on the commission's findings.
Bishop, William John, and Sue Goldie. A Bio-Bibliography of Florence Nightingale. Dawsons for the International Council of Nurses, 1962.
57, 63
Textual Features Janet Hamilton
The vigour and originality of her voice on women's issues requires greater recognition, ranging as it does from the satiric Crinoline, to Contrasted Scenes from Real Life which juxtaposes the earthly lot of Lady Emily Hay
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 Mary Taylor
Emily Faithfull at the Victoria Press published a collection of MT 's most popular essays: The First Duty of Women: A Series of Articles Reprinted from the Victoria Magazine, 1865-1870.
Taylor, Mary. The First Duty of Women. Emily Faithfull, 1870.
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Textual Production Bessie Rayner Parkes
As editor of the new English Woman's Journal from April 1857, BRP saw the paper as representing the Working Woman, a term that she defined as intended to include all women who are actively...
Textual Production Isa Craig
This volume included contributions by herself, Bessie Rayner Parkes , and Mary Howitt , as well as two poems by the Rossettis: Christina 's A Royal Princess and Dante Gabriel 's Sudden Light. The...
Textual Production Isa Craig
Kemble's work had appeared only a few months before Emily Faithfull published this shorter and more concentrated account.
Textual Production Emily Davies
ED served for ten months as editor of the Victoria Magazine, a general-interest monthly with a feminist emphasis founded by Emily Faithfull .
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany, 1994.
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Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable, 1927.
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Textual Production Emily Davies
The paper was published as a pamphlet later in the year by Emily Faithfull at the Victoria Press .
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.
Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable, 1927.
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Textual Production George Eliot
GE declined an invitation from Emily Faithfull to write a story for the Victoria Magazine.
Hands, Timothy. A George Eliot Chronology. G. K. Hall, 1989.
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