Faithfull, EMILY

Faithfull, EMILY, born at Headley Rectory, Surrey, in 1835, early became interested in the condition of working-women, and in 1860 founded in London a printing establishment where women were employed as compositors. The Queen marked her approval of the work by appointing Miss Faithfull printer and publisher in ordinary to Her Majesty. In 1863 she started the Victoria Magazine, in which the claims of women to remunerative employment were set forth; and in 1868 she published Change upon Change, a novel. Shortly after, she appeared as a lecturer, and in 1872-73 lectured in the United States (see Three Visits to America, 1884). A civil list pension of £50 was conferred in 1889. She died 31st May 1895.