Louisa Twining

Standard Name: Twining, Louisa

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Emily Faithfull
EF also published Mary Merryweather 's Experience of Factory Life.
Fredeman, William E. “Emily Faithfull and the Victoria Press: An Experiment in Sociological Bibliography”. The Library, Vol.
29
, No. 2, pp. 139-64.
162
As a publisher she produced a high proportion of texts by female authors, including Frances Power Cobbe , Sarah Stickney Ellis , Louisa Twining
Publishing Frances Power Cobbe
FPC 's first published essay, about an Italian workhouse, appeared over the initial C in Louisa Twining 's Journal of the Workhouse Visiting Society.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press.
112
Friends, Associates Frances Power Cobbe
She was drawn into this work through her friendships with Louisa Twining and Margaret Elliot , daughter of the Dean of Bristol .
Cobbe, Frances Power. Life of Frances Power Cobbe. Houghton, Mifflin.
1: 281, 291
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press.
108-9
Friends, Associates Emily Faithfull
EF suffered in various ways as a result of the trial. The sense that she had prevaricated, at the very least, alienated many of her associates on The English Woman's Journal, including Emily Davies

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1847: Louisa Twining first visited the poor, around...

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1847

Louisa Twining first visited the poor, around her childhood home in the Strand.

1853: Louisa Twining began her work with the inmates...

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1853

Louisa Twining began her work with the inmates of the Strand workhouse.

1857 or 1858: Louisa Twining initiated the Workhouse Visiting...

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1857 or 1858

Louisa Twining initiated the Workhouse Visiting Society some years after a visit to the Strand Workhouse left her shocked at the loneliness and isolation that the inmates faced.

1858: Louisa Twining became secretary of the newly-founded...

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1858

Louisa Twining became secretary of the newly-founded Workhouse Visiting Society .

1861: Testifying before a Select Committee on Poor...

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1861

Testifying before a Select Committee on Poor Relief, Louisa Twining noted of poor females that service . . . is the only occupation they can follow in life.

1866: Louisa Twining and several prominent male...

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1866

Louisa Twining and several prominent male reformers joined together to found the Association for the Improvement of Workhouse Infirmaries .

1879: The Association for Promoting Trained Nursing...

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1879

The Association for Promoting Trained Nursing in Workhouse Infirmaries and Sick Asylums was founded.

1881: The Women Guardians Society was founded....

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1881

The Women Guardians Society was founded.

1884: Louisa Twining was elected Poor Law Guardian...

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1884

Louisa Twining was elected Poor Law Guardian in Kensington.

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