Three Visits to America [Paperback]

An 1884 account of the American lecture tours of this influential women's rights campaigner, founder of the Victoria Press.Three Visits (1884) describes three American lecture tours by the Victorian printer Emily Faithfull, a women's rights campaigner and founder of the Victoria Press, a printing establishment for women. Faithfull addresses topics including women's employment, education and divorce; her work remains a key source for the history of liberal feminism.Three Visits (1884) describes three American lecture tours by the Victorian printer Emily Faithfull, a women's rights campaigner and founder of the Victoria Press, a printing establishment for women. Faithfull addresses topics including women's employment, education and divorce; her work remains a key source for the history of liberal feminism.The Victorian printer Emily Faithfull (183595) published Three Visits in 1884. The work is an account of her American lecture tours that took place in 18723, 18823 and 1884. Faithfull, a controversial and independently minded figure, campaigned for the employment and education rights of women. In 1860, Faithfull set up a printing establishment for women, the Victoria Press, where, despite fierce resistance from the printing trade, she employed and trained women as compositors. In 1862, she was made Printer and Publisher in Ordinary to Queen Victoria. Faithfull, a talented speaker, lectured widely on how America was dealing with the changing position of women, and the campaign for women's employment rights. This account remains a key source for the history of liberal feminism and the emancipation of nineteenth-century women.Preface; 1. First arrival in America; 2. Reception at Steinway Hall; 3. The President at the White House; 4. Railroads, drawing-room cars, sleepers, and hotel cars; 5. A visit to the University of Michigan; 6. Vassar College; 7. The Quaker city; 8. Boston, its east wind, culture, and English look; 9. English and American receptions contrasted; 1l#,