[3] She joined the Société pour la Revendication du Droit des Femmes (Society for claiming women's rights), which first met in 1866 at André Léo's house.
Other members were Maria Deraismes, Paule Mink, Louise Michel, Élie Reclus and Caroline de Barrau.
[3] In 1888 Eliska Vincent formed the feminist group Egalité de Asnières, named after the suburb in which she lived.
The Federation's secretary Aline Valette founded the weekly tabloid L'Harmonie sociale which first appeared on 15 October 1892 as a means of making contact with working women to understand their concerns.
[7] However, the contributors to the journal, who included Eliska Vincent, Marie Bonnevial and Marya Chéliga-Loevy, were more interested in feminism than socialism.
[9] On 4 April 1893 Vincent was among a group of women who formed a lodge in the Masonic tradition headed by Maria Deraismes as Grand Master, Le Droit Humain (Human Right).
[10] Eliska Vincent resigned from Egalité in 1900 when it allied itself with the larger National Council of French Women.
"[15] According to Klejman and Rochefort Vincent created le féminisme historique, although "Léopold Lacour is without a doubt the first to undertake an historian's examination of feminism.
"[16] Vincent was the first archivist of the feminist movement, and collected a huge library, including files on the communards.