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.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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... |
Occupation | Matilda Hays | 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. Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany. 52, 238n10 |
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 Production | Sarah Stickney Ellis | SSE
published with Emily Faithfull
at the Victoria Press
a Story in Verse entitled Janet, One of Many, treating the controversial figure of the fallen woman. 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. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1823 (4 October 1862): 431 |
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. 84 |
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. 73-4 Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable. 77 |
Friends, Associates | Emily Davies | In London, ED
met John Stuart Mill
and Harriet Taylor
. At Emily Faithfull
's parties, frequented by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, Isa Craig
, and Bessie Rayner Parkes, she met Anthony Trollope
, Louis Blanc |
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. 75 |
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. |
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. Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press. 116, 118 |
Friends, Associates | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
was a friend of Emily Faithfull
, Geraldine Jewsbury
, and Rosa Bonheur
, and she knew Josephine Butler
, Augusta Webster
, Lady Battersea
, Emily Pfeiffer
, Anne Thackeray Ritchie
, Helen Taylor |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Frances Power Cobbe | In treating the need for other pursuits for spinsters and widows she touches on the topical subjects of religious sisterhoods, female doctors, higher education for women, female philanthropists such as Maria Rye
, and feminist... |
Performance of text | Jessie Boucherett | 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. 236n35 |
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 |
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