[1] Faithfull joined the Langham Place Circle, composed of like-minded women such as Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, Bessie Rayner Parkes, Jessie Boucherett, Emily Davies, and Helen Blackburn.

Although Faithfull identified with all three aspects of the group's aims, her primary areas of interest centered on advancing women's employment opportunities.

As a result of Faithfull's limited involvement and association with the case, her reputation suffered and she was shunned by the Langham Place Group.

[5] In 1863 she began the publication of a monthly, Victoria Magazine, in which for eighteen years she continuously and earnestly advocated the claims of women to remunerative employment.

She considered compositor's work (a comparatively lucrative trade of the time) to be a possible mode of employment for women to pursue.

This was opposed by the London Printer's Union, which was open only to men and claimed that women lacked the requisite intelligence and physical skill.

[4] Tricks of a most unmanly nature were resorted to, their frames and stools were covered with ink to destroy their dresses unawares, the letters were mixed up in their boxes, and the cases were emptied of "sorts."

The men who were induced to come into the office to work the presses and teach the girls, had to assume false names to avoid detection, as the printers' union forbade their aiding the obnoxious scheme.