Three Visits to America - 9781108033404

Three Visits to AmericaAuthor(s): Emily Faithfull\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108033404, 978-1108033404\nSynopsis\nThe Victorian printer Emily Faithfull [tel] 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.