Contains chiefly articles on women's rights and issues, in particular the following: Langham Place; the laws of property in relation to women, the employment of women, the education of girls, and laws affecting women generally.
Page 1) ‘Who is Mrs Nightingale?’, an article from the Examiner;
Page 3) ‘A carol on Caroline Chisholm’, a poem from Punch;
Pages 4-5) Review of ‘Remarks on the education of Girls’ and ‘A brief summary in plain language …’, from un unnamed newspaper;
Page 5) Review of ‘A brief summary, in plain language, of the most important laws concerning women. The public function of women, a sermon by Theodore Parker. The great sin of great cities, reprinted from the Westminster Review. Remarks on the education of girls’ from an unnamed newspaper;
Pages 6-7) ‘A strong minded heroine’, a review of Julia Kavanagh’s Grace Lee from an unnamed newspaper;
Page 9) Review of [Henry] Taylor’s essays, from an unnamed newspaper;
Pages 11) ‘The Nightingale Testimonial. To the editor of the Birmingham Journal’, a letter by Bessie Rayner Parkes, 5 September [1855], from an unnamed newspaper;
Pages 11-13) ‘The Nightingale Testimonial’, a letter by Bessie Rayner Parkes, 11 September 1855, from an unnamed newspaper;
Page 13) Review of a lecture on ‘Ladies college system of education’, ‘Remarks on the education of girls’ and ‘A brief summary, in plain language, of the most important laws concerning women’, from an unnamed newspaper;
Page 13) Article discussing property laws, from an unnamed newspaper;
Page 14) ‘The Laws of property as they relate to women’, letter to the editor of the Leader, signed ‘B’;
Pages 15-16) ‘Copy of petition presented March 14, 1856, to both Houses of Parliament, and signed upwards of 3,000 women of Great Britain, married and single’;
Page 17) Article on the petition and property laws, from an unnamed newspaper;
Page 17) ‘Lord Lyndhurst on the laws relating to married women’, an article from an unnamed newspaper;
Pages 18-19) ‘Remarks on the education of girls by Bessie Rayner Parkes’, a review from the Scotsman;
Page 20) ‘The property of married women’, an article printed in the Law Amendment Journal, 15 May 1856;
Page 20) ‘Mrs Elizabeth Hakewill’s appeal to the benevolent’, a report in the Times, 1 December 1855;
Page 21) Article on the laws concerning women, from the Globe, 1 April 1856;
Page 22) Article by Matilda Hays on laws concerning women, from the Morning Star;
Page 23) Invitation to a lecture by Mrs Jameson on the social employment of women, 28 June [no year given];
Pages 24-25) Report of Sir Erskine Perry’s debate, from the Times;
Page 26) Notice of a public meeting to consider property laws, 31 May [no year given];
Pages 27-29) Printed letters regarding women’s rights, including two letters by Bessie Rayner Parkes, from an unnamed newspaper, 1856;
Page 29) ‘Miss Dix, the friend of the insane’, a letter from Miss Dix from The Scotsman, 22 June 1857;
Page 31) Copy of Dr Blackwell’s circular, 1856;
Pages 32-33) 'The ladies’ club', report printed in The Saturday Review, 7 January 1860;
Page 33) 'The ladies’ reading room', a letter by Bessie Rayner Parkes printed in unnamed newspaper, 14 January 1860;
Pages 34-35) Article about the ladies’ club printed in the Daily News, 21 January 1860;
Page 35) ‘Marriage settlements’, a letter to the editor of the Daily News;
Page 43) ‘The late Mrs Jameson’, a letter by Bessie Rayner Parkes to the editor of the Daily News, 3 April [1860];
Pages 45-47) ‘Lady Noel Byron’, an obituary printed in The Daily News, 24 May 1860;
Pages 48-49) ‘The Factory: the power loom weavers strike’, report, and letters by William Davidson and Samuel Courtauld printed in unnamed newspaper;
Pages 50-51) ‘Special meeting: the industrial employment of women’, report on the meeting of the Society for the Employment of Women on 28 September, printed in unnamed newspaper, 1 October 1860;
Pages 52-53) ‘Society for the Employment of Women’, notice of a meeting 28 September 1860;
Page 54) Two reports on the meeting of the Society for the Employment of Women on 28 September 1860, from two unnamed newspapers.