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Blackburn inspired and funded two collections. The first was an art collection in 1885 that included pictures and work done by professional women to show the result of women's industry. She was insistent that this would not include voluntary or amateurish work but it would show the products of female
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146:(Blackburn, editor, 1880–90; joint editor, 1890–95). Together they established the Women's Employment Defence League in 1891, to defend women's working rights against restrictive employment legislation. They also together edited
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by supplying her own notes on the subject, then by purchasing the whole of the first edition in 1894. She scaled down her work in 1895 to care for her aged father until his death, then resumed her work.
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