Victoria Press
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The Victoria Press was started by Emily Faithfull in London, in 1860.
Faithfull was a member of The Society for Promoting the Employment of Women. She was convinced that work as a compositor could be a well-suited trade for women seeking occupation (by the nineteenth century, this was generally a well-paid industry). Faithfull learned type-setting. She founded the press, and then went on to train and hire other women as compositors for her shop. She generated hostility from the male-dominated Printer's Union, in London. The Union denied women access to compositor's work, using the justification that women lacked the mechanical ability and the intelligence to be compositors. Faithfull however perservered, and her press continued for years. Publications from her press included two periodicals: The English Women's Journal and The Victoria Magazine, both of which promoted the employment of women.
References
EMILY FAITHFULL: Victorian Champion of Women's Rights by James S. Stone (Toronto: P.D. Meany, 1994)
