ABSTRACT
First published in 1987. Reprints material from the 1850's and 1860's, a period which marked a turning point in the history of British Feminism. At the centre of this was Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, whose pioneering schemes to improve the status of women made these years some of the richest in debate and reform
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |16 pages
Introduction
part |3 pages
Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–64)
chapter |1 pages
Now
part |118 pages
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (1827–91)
chapter |38 pages
Women and Work (1857)
chapter |10 pages
Middle-Class Schools for Girls
chapter |8 pages
Reasons for the Enfranchisement of Women
(a paper read at the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, October 1866)
chapter |15 pages
Authorities and Precedents for giving the Suffrage to Qualified Women
(reprinted from The Englishwoman's Review, January 1867)
part |84 pages
Bessie Rayner Parkes (1829–1925)
chapter |9 pages
The Market for Educated Female Labour *
chapter |13 pages
What Can Educated Women Do? (I)
chapter |11 pages
What Can Educated Women Do? (II)
chapter |10 pages
A Year's Experience in Woman's Work
chapter |10 pages
The Condition of Working Women in England and France
chapter |6 pages
The Balance of Public Opinion in Regard to Woman's Work
chapter |9 pages
Female Life in Prison
chapter |8 pages
A Review of the Last Six Years
part |55 pages
Jessie Boucherett (1825–1905)
chapter |16 pages
On the Obstacles to the Employment of Women
chapter |8 pages
Local Societies
chapter |10 pages
On the Choice of a Business
chapter |10 pages
On the Cause of the Distress prevalent among Single Women
part |13 pages
Emily Faithfull (1835–95)
chapter |6 pages
Victoria Press
chapter |5 pages
Women Compositors
part |27 pages
Isa Craig (1831–1903)
chapter |10 pages
Emigration as a Preventive Agency
(a paper read at the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, October 1858 and reprinted in The English Woman's Journal, January 1859)
chapter |15 pages
Insanity: its Cause and Cure
(reprinted from The English Woman's Journal, September 1859)
part |24 pages
Maria Susan Rye (1829–1903)
chapter |14 pages
The Rise and Progress of Telegraphs
(reprinted from The English Woman's Journal, November 1859)
part |57 pages
Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904)
chapter |7 pages
The Preventative Branch of the Bristol Female Mission
(a paper read at the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, August 1861 and reprinted in The English Woman's Journal, November 1861)
chapter |24 pages
What Shall We Do With Our Old Maids?
(reprinted from Frazer's Magazine, November 1862)
chapter |24 pages
Criminals, Idiots, Women and Minors. Is the Classification Sound?
A Discussion of the Laws concerning the Property of Married Women
part |37 pages
Emily Davies (1830–1921)
chapter |5 pages
Medicine as a Profession for Women
(a paper read at the Social Science Congress, June 1862)
chapter |13 pages
The Influence of University Degrees on the Education of Women
(reprinted from The Victoria Magazine, June 1863)
chapter |12 pages
On Secondary Instruction, as Relating to Girls
part |9 pages
Elizabeth Garrett (1836–1917)
chapter |7 pages
Hospital Nursing
(a paper read at the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, 1866)
part |26 pages
Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910)
chapter |3 pages
Extracts from the Laws of Life, with special reference to the Physical Education of Girls
(reprinted from The English Woman's Journal, May 1858)
