A carte-de-visite portrait of the women's rights activist and publisher Emily Faithfull (1835-1895).
The daughter of a clergyman, Faithfull took a great interest in the conditions of working-women. With the object of extending their sphere of labour, which was then painfully limited, in 1860 she set up in London a printing establishment for women. The Victoria Press soon obtained a reputation for its excellent work and Faithfull was shortly afterwards appointed printer and publisher in ordinary to Queen Victoria. In 1863 she began the publication of a monthly journal, The Victoria Magazine, in which for eighteen years she continuously and earnestly advocated the claims of women to remunerative employment.
Photographed by Murray and Heath.