Three Visits to America

by Faithfull, Emily

• ISBN13: 9781108033404
• ISBN10: 1108033407
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-07-14
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface

First arrival in America

Reception at Steinway Hall

The President at the White House

Railroads, drawing-room cars, sleepers, and hotel cars

A visit to the University of Michigan

Vassar College

The Quaker city

Boston, its east wind, culture, and English look

English and American receptions contrasted

New Year's Day [1884] in Colorado

Brigham Young and the 'true inwardness of Mormonism'

The President's Secretary, Mr George Reynolds

American hotel despotism

Strange contrasts afforded

Strawberries in February

The orange groves at Los Angeles

Divorce

Occupations open to women in 1836, when Harriet Martineau visited America, contrasted with those of to-day

The American girl

Anthony Trollope on English, American, and Australian newspapers

The traveller's appreciation of New York after journeys to the interior

Canada

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