Society for Promoting the Employment of Women

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Connections Author name Excerpt
politics Emily Faithfull
EF served as secretary of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women (SPEW).
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany, 1994.
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politics Emily Faithfull
EF and Bessie Parkes founded the Edinburgh branch of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women (SPEW).
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany, 1994.
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politics Emily Faithfull
EF acted as director of an employment register for the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women (SPEW).
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany, 1994.
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politics Emily Faithfull
EF helped found the Dublin branch of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women (SPEW).
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany, 1994.
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politics Emily Faithfull
By 1859 The English Woman's Journal was felt to be no longer adequate on its own for promoting women's work, and Jessie Boucherett suggested the creation of a society which would deal specifically with this...
Publishing Adelaide Procter
In connection with her work as a member of the newly formed Society for Promoting the Employment of Women , AP published Women Watchmakers of Christchurch in the English Woman's Journal.
Gregory, Gill. The Life and Work of Adelaide Proctor. Ashgate, 1998.
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Textual Features Emily Faithfull
EF supported the suffrage cause by lecturing on women's suffrage and by reporting on the activities of the National Society for Women's Suffrage in her periodicals.
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany, 1994.
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She also publicised the Society for the Promotion of the Employment of Women
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 Harriet Martineau
HM wrote on topics related to women and supported a wide range of feminist causes throughout her career. She sent a letter conveying her warm and unrestricted sympathy
Martineau, Harriet. Harriet Martineau on Women. Editor Yates, Gayle Graham, Rutgers University Press, 1985.
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to the participants in the Women's...
Textual Production Emily Davies
Under ED 's editorship, the periodical combined literary contributions (such as poetry by Christina Rossetti and fiction by Thomas Adolphus Trollope ) with book reviews, reports of bodies such as the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Emily Faithfull
EF 's preface to the volume again outlines in a matter-of-fact way the aims of the Society for the Promotion of the Employment of Women and the Victoria Press .
Faithfull, Emily. “Preface”. The Victoria Regia, edited by Adelaide Procter, Emily Faithfull, 1861, p. v - viii.
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Wealth and Poverty Emily Jane Pfeiffer
Money from the Pfeiffer trust was also given to Newnham , Girton , and Somerville College s, and many other institutions and agencies promoting women's education, including the Maria Grey Training College and the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women

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