FAITHFULL, Emily.

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Woman's Work. With Special Reference to Industrial Employment, First edition in pamphlet form. A founding member of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women, Faithfull opened the Victoria Press in 1860 with the aim of providing jobs for women, specifically in the role of compositors. It is accompanied by Faithfull's clipped signature.The paper was first published on 31 March in the Arts Journal; this pamphlet edition was updated based on the April census. Faithfull (1835-1895) addressed population gender disparity - which was weighted toward women - with the issue being that "superfluous women" would not find husbands and would need employment to support themselves. This concern prompted the 1859 establishment of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women. However, Faithfull argued that the society was not enough and that "a national effort will alone enable us to cope with the difficulties surrounding that large and increasing class of women forced to work, from whom we at present expect bricks though we refuse the straw" (p. 14).Faithfull was a prolific letter writer, her correspondents including Barbara Bodichon, Richard Cobden, Bram Stoker, and Christina Rossetti. However, she destroyed the majority of her correspondence after her involvement in the divorce case of Helen and Henry Codrington.

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