MERRYWEATHER, Mary.

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Experience of Factory Life. Earliest obtainable edition. In 1850 Merryweather started a day nursery and night school for women working at Courtauld's silk factory. The pamphlet was written at the request of Bessie Rayner Parkes to expound the benefits of female education within the workplace. Although this is the stated third edition, we have traced no recorded copies of a first or second edition.A Quaker and a nurse, Merryweather (1813-1880) was a close friend of Parkes and held shares in the English Women's Journal. She was a member of the governing council of the London School of Medicine for Women and of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women. She later founded a training school for nurses in Liverpool.The pamphlet was published by Emily Faithfull (1835-1895) at her Victoria Press, opened in 1860 with the aim of providing jobs for women, specifically in the role of compositors.

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