The Women's Printing Society was a British publishing house founded in either 1874[1][2] or 1876[3][4][5] by Emma Paterson and Emily Faithfull[4] with the company being officially incorporated as a cooperative in 1878.
[1] The company played an important role in British suffrage movement, both through its publication of feminist tracts and in providing employment opportunities for women in a field that had previously been restricted to men.
[2] Women worked as compositors, and as of 1904, it was one of the few houses where they also did the imposing: ordering the galley proofs so that when folded, the front and back pages aligned properly.
[7] The Board of Directors included Sarah Prideaux, Mabel Winkworth and Stewart Duckworth Headlam.
[7] Elizabeth Yeats studied for a brief time at the Women's Printing Society, before returning to Ireland and starting the Dun Emer Press.