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pp. x, 349, (i). Woodcut initials and tailpieces throughout. Original red morocco presentation binding, ornately blind-stamped with decorative gilt lettering and central crown to both covers, ornately gilt and dated spine signed JL [JOHN LEIGHTON], bevelled boards, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, the spine is rubbed along the edges, also the lower corners and patches along the board edges, overall a good copy. *Dedicated to Queen Victoria and illustrated with a cut of the Victoria Regia, the Great Water Lily of America [Amazonia regia]. Emily Fathfull's Preface describes the setting up of the Society for Promoting the Industrial Employment of Women and the Victoria Press. Much of the content is original work by Tennyson, Allingham, Lowell, Meredith and Thackeray, Trollope, Amelia Edwards, Anna Watts, Matthew Arnold amongst others. Emily Faithfull joined the Langham Place Circle, composed of like-minded women such as Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, Bessie Rayner Parkes, Jessie Boucherett, Emily Davies, and Helen Blackburn. The Langham Place Circle advocated for legal reform in women's status (including suffrage), wider employment possibilities, and improved educational opportunities for girls and women. Although Faithfull identified with all three aspects of the group's aims, her primary areas of interest centered on advancing women's employment opportunities. The Circle was responsible for forming the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women in 1859. With the object of extending women's sphere of labour, which was then very limited, in 1860 Emily Faithfull set up in London a printing establishment for women, called The Victoria Press. From 1860 until 1864, it published the feminist English Woman's Journal. Both Faithfull and her Victoria Press soon obtained a reputation for its excellent work, and Faithfull was shortly afterwards appointed printer and publisher in ordinary to Queen Victoria. In 1863 she began the publication of a monthly, Victoria Magazine, in which for eighteen years she continuously and earnestly advocated the claims of women to remunerative employment. In January 1864 she published the first annual report of the Ladies' London Emancipation Society and she went on to publish other works on behalf of this society. In 1868 she published a novel, Change upon Change. She also appeared as a lecturer, and, with the object of furthering the interests of women, lectured widely and successfully both in England and the United States, which latter she visited in 1872 and 1882. She was a member of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women. She considered compositor's work (a comparatively lucrative trade of the time) to be a possible mode of employment for women to pursue. This was opposed by the London Printer's Union, which was open only to men and claimed that women lacked the requisite intelligence and physical skill. See WIKIPEDIA.
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