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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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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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...

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