National Association for the Promotion of Social Science

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politics Jessie Boucherett
JB and Bessie Rayner Parkes delivered papers at the Congress of the Social Science Association at Bradford, addressing issues relating to women's employment.
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany, 1994.
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Author summary Isa Craig
Isa Craig was a poet, journalist, editor, and novelist whose literary work was informed by the concerns of the mid-Victorian feminist movement. Her verse appeared in several periodicals, including the feminist English Woman's Journal...
Publishing Jessie Boucherett
In December 1861 JB 's Local Societies, a paper first read that August at the annual NAPSS meeting, was printed in the English Woman's Journal.
Lacey, Candida Ann, editor. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and the Langham Place Group. Routledge, 1987.
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Publishing Mary Carpenter
MC was a frequent contributor of articles to periodicals and of papers to conferences, and many of her short pieces were later reprinted as free-standing pamphlets. In 1857 her Essay on 'Food, Labour, and Rest...
Textual Features Emily Faithfull
EF outlines the aims of the Victoria Press as originating in the simple fact of women being constantly thrown upon the world to get their daily bread by their own exertions,
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.
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explaining that the...
Textual Production Emily Davies
ED regularly wrote papers for the Congress . By the time of her candidacy for the London School Board in 1870, she was giving public speeches.
Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable, 1927.
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Textual Production Jessie Boucherett
It had already been read, that August, at the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science .
Textual Production Emily Faithfull
EF 's Social Science Congress paper on the Victoria Press appeared in The English Woman's Journal, seven months after the press was launched.
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.
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Textual Production Emily Faithfull
EF 's Social Science Congress paper on Women Compositors announced that the Victoria Press was self-supporting after eighteen months.
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.
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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.
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, No. 2, –June 1974, pp. 139-64.
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As a publisher she produced a high proportion of texts by female authors, including Frances Power Cobbe , Sarah Stickney Ellis , Louisa Twining
Textual Production Frances Power Cobbe
It was a response to chauvinistic views expressed about women's public participation in the meetings of the NAPSS , particularly J. Beavington Atkinson 's piece in Blackwood's for October 1861.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
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Textual Production Bessie Rayner Parkes
BRP spoke on several occasions, beginning in October 1859, at assemblies of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science on issues connected with women's employment.
Textual Production Isa Craig
This was part of her work as assistant secretary of the Association ; she edited the Transactions until 1866. (It ran until 1886). Many of the speeches were delivered by IC 's Langham Place colleagues...
Textual Production Florence Nightingale
Two papers by FN were read before an Edinburgh meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science ; they later formed her influential work Notes on Hospitals.
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.
Textual Production Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
BLSB 's paper Reasons for the Enfranchisement of Women was read before the Social Science Association in Manchester.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
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