Three Visits to America

An 1884 account of the American lecture tours of this influential women's rights campaigner, founder of the Victoria Press.

Emily Faithfull (Author)

9781108033404, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 14 July 2011

400 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.3 cm, 0.51 kg

The Victorian printer Emily Faithfull (1835–95) published Three Visits in 1884. The work is an account of her American lecture tours that took place in 1872–3, 1882–3 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
10. New Year's Day [1884] in Colorado
11. Brigham Young and the 'true inwardness of Mormonism'
12. The President's Secretary, Mr George Reynolds
13. American hotel despotism
14. Strange contrasts afforded
15. Strawberries in February
16. The orange groves at Los Angeles
17. Divorce
18. Occupations open to women in 1836, when Harriet Martineau visited America, contrasted with those of to-day
19. The American girl
20. Anthony Trollope on English, American, and Australian newspapers
21. The traveller's appreciation of New York after journeys to the interior
22. Canada.

Subject Areas: Social & cultural history [HBTB]