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The late Miss Emily Faithfull, 1895. Creator: W&D Downey.

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The late Miss Emily Faithfull, 1895. 'Miss Emily Faithfull, who has died at the age of sixty, was well known for her work as an organiser of industrial employments for women. For many years she had a printing-press, from which, among other publications, she issued the Victoria Magazine. Miss Faithfull was very popular as a lecturer both in this country and in the United States, and she wrote some lively impressions of American society. One of her gifts was a singularly musical voice, which she used with great effect on the platform...Miss Faithfull had many friends in the theatrical profession, and a nephew of hers is Mr. Rutland Barrington'. Faithfull was a member of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women, and was appointed printer and publisher in ordinary to Queen Victoria despite the claims of the London Printer's Union that women lacked the requisite intelligence and physical skill to work as compositors. The suggestion that Faithfull and Helen Jane Smith Codrington were lesbian lovers damaged her reputation, and led her to destroy all of her private papers, in particular letters written to and from her family, leaving little behind besides her professional publications and a few treasured letters and clippings. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM26A09_074

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9,0Mo (834,4Ko) / 12,5cm x 18,0cm / 1481 x 2129 (300dpi)

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