Miss Emilie Venturi
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Single
Born: 1826
Died: 1893
Occupation: Artist
Main Suffrage Society: CCNSWS
Other Societies: EWC; WFraL
Society Role: CCNSWS executive committee member; WFraL committee member
1866 Petition: Yes
Petition Area: 14 Milbourne Grove, London, Middlesex, England
Other sources: https://www.parliament.uk/1866
Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866?1928 (2001); Anne Dingsdale, 'Generous and Lofty Sympathies: The Kensington Society, the 1866 Women's Suffrage Petition and the Development of Mid-Victorian Feminism' (unpublished PhD, University of Greenwich, 1995)
Family information: Sister to Caroline Stansfield, who also signed the 1866 petition.
Additional Information: Emilie signed the 1866 petition and subscribed to the Enfranchisement of Women Committee (EWC) that same year. When the Central Committee of the NSWS formed in 1871, she was on its executive committee, and later, in 1890, became a committee member of the Women's Franchise League.
Other Suffrage Activities: Emilie supported women's suffrage but most of her energies went into other causes, including her work as an executive committee member of the Married Women's Property Committee (1876?1882), the Personal Rights Association and the Ladies National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts. She worked as editor for the latter's journal, The Shield (1871?1886).