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The Victoria Press was founded by activist Emily Faithfull in London in 1860. Faithfull saw the work of her press as three-fold: furthering the messages of the women\u2019s liberation movement, making space for women\u2019s writing and intellectual output, and creating opportunities for women to work. The Victoria Press was part of a large network of organizations that pushed for the employment of women in the print trade. The press was an offshoot of both the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women which was founded in 1859 and the Women\u2019s Printing Society that Faithfull had founded in the 1870s. Faithfull\u2019s work was motivated by the barrier\u2019s which women faced within the print trade. Printing unions barred women entry and male compositors refused them work declaring that they did not have the capacity for the technicalities of composition or justification. Faithfull believed that the industry could provide respectable and profitable jobs for middle-class women who sought work to allow themselves greater independence.<\/p>\n
Faithfull came to be a printer and publisher in ordinary for the queen finding great success and wide readership. She and her team of women compositors and printers published women\u2019s periodicals, poetry work, and official government sanctioned texts like The Health of Merchant Seamen<\/em>, a copy of which is included in this exhibition. The press also engaged with activist print across a variety of social movements. Faithfull undertook several print runs for the Ladies\u2019 London Emancipation Society. Copies of two of the pamphlets that she printed for this group \u201cThe Essence of Slavery\u201d and \u201cThe Chivalry of the South\u201d are housed in Western\u2019s Special Collections.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding=”70px|||||”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_gallery gallery_ids=”339,343,341″ show_pagination=”off” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” orientation=”portrait” caption_text_color=”#3f3f3f” caption_font=”Amaranth||||||||” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_gallery][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Victoria Press was founded by activist Emily Faithfull in London in 1860. Faithfull saw the work of her press as three-fold: furthering the messages of the women\u2019s liberation movement, making space for women\u2019s writing and intellectual output, and creating opportunities for women to work. The Victoria Press was part of a large network of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":368,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-320","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/feministbibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/feministbibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/feministbibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/feministbibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/feministbibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/feministbibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/feministbibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}