1. Emily Faithfull was an English women's rights activist who set up the Victoria Press to publish the English Woman's Journal.
10 Facts About Emily Faithfull
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Emily Faithfull was born on 27 May 1835 at Headley Rectory, Surrey.
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Emily Faithfull was the youngest daughter of the Rev Ferdinand Faithfull and Elizabeth Mary Harrison.
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In 1864, Emily Faithfull was implicated in a divorce case between Admiral Henry Codrington and his wife Helen Jane Smith Codrington.
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Emily Faithfull was a witness to the marriage of Peacock's daughter Jane Peacock to William Taylor Birchenough, the son of John Birchenough, another silk manufacturer cited approvingly in Three Visits To America for his treatment of women employees.
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Emily Faithfull is a protagonist of Emma Donoghue's 2008 novel, The Sealed Letter, which is based on the Codrington divorce case of 1864.
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Emily Faithfull 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.
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Emily Faithfull was a member of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women.
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Emily Faithfull considered compositor's work to be a possible mode of employment for women to pursue.
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The archives of Emily Faithfull are held at The Women's Library at the London School of Economics, ref 7EFA.