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Marian Sutton Marshall (; 1846–1901) was an English
In 1892 Marshall moved out of London due to ill-health and settled in Cambridge where she soon established the Cambridge University Type-Writing Office which soon became patronised by University faculty. It was also in Cambridge that she and her 'lieutenant' Miss Riddell started a shorthand class to teach students at the university improved note taking. She was a consistent member of the Women's Suffrage Society and attended the 1899 International Congress of Women Workers in London representing the Liberal women of Cambridge, where she gave a speech on general education of women and business training in shorthand and typewriting.
Marshall, would die in 7 April 1901, aged 53, of cancer in London, having moved back after she sold her business in Cambridge due to her worsening health the previous year. She was buried in Hammersmith old cemetery.
Marian Sutton Marshall (; 1846–1901) was an English typist Typist is a person who types, a clerical worker who writes documents, using a typewriter.
Skills and occupations
Typist may also refer to:
*Data entry clerk, someone who types data into a database via a computer or terminal.
* Audio typist, someone ...
and trade unionist.
Biography
Mary Anne Broadbent, later known as Marianne or Marian, was born on 12 September 1846 at Lockwood, Huddersfield, to William Broadbent, a tea dealer, and Anne Thornton. When her education was complete she went with her mother and sister to New Zealand. She married, on 1 June 1870 atCamberwell
Camberwell () is a district of South London, England, in the London Borough of Southwark, southeast of Charing Cross.
Camberwell was first a village associated with the church of St Giles and a common of which Goose Green is a remnant. This e ...
, a Deputy Assistant Commissary General to the War office, Thomas Sutton Marshall. After some time, the marriage fell through and the two separated.
Now having to independently support herself she entered the world of work as a typist Typist is a person who types, a clerical worker who writes documents, using a typewriter.
Skills and occupations
Typist may also refer to:
*Data entry clerk, someone who types data into a database via a computer or terminal.
* Audio typist, someone ...
for novelist Charles Reade
Charles Reade (8 June 1814 – 11 April 1884) was a British novelist and dramatist, best known for '' The Cloister and the Hearth''.
Life
Charles Reade was born at Ipsden, Oxfordshire, to John Reade and Anne Marie Scott-Waring, and had at leas ...
, with her first work being typing up his novel '' Christie Johnstone''. She gained a reputation for speed and accuracy, and in 1884 established the 'Ladies Type-Writing Office', possibly the first such institution. Among the clients for this business was Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is ...
, who trusted her so much that he wanted her office to undertake typist work on '' De Profundis''. He would later mention in a letter to Robbie Ross that "Mrs Marshall can be relied on." In 1889 she founded the Society of Typists (Later the National Union of Typists) to represent the interest of type-writers, and is thought to have been an good organiser and orator in this regard. In 1891 she was made the Society of Arts first examiner in type-writing, a position she held for the rest of her life.
She was prolific in her contributions to the press in her areas of expertise, contributing articles on shorthand and typewriting as an employment opportunity for women to publications such as '' The Queen's Journal'', ''The Phonetic Journal
''The Phonetic Journal'' was the official journal of The Phonetic Society based at the Kingston Buildings in Bath, Somerset, England and is the first ever journal about phonetics. It was published subtitled as ''Published Weekly, Devoted to the ...
'', ''The Pall Mall Gazette
''The Pall Mall Gazette'' was an evening newspaper founded in London on 7 February 1865 by George Murray Smith; its first editor was Frederick Greenwood. In 1921, '' The Globe'' merged into ''The Pall Mall Gazette'', which itself was absorbed int ...
'', '' St James's Gazette'', '' Tit-Bits'', among others. She also published a short pamphlet on the subject in 1892 entitled ''Type-Writing Cards for Use in Offices and Schools''.
In 1892 Marshall moved out of London due to ill-health and settled in Cambridge where she soon established the Cambridge University Type-Writing Office which soon became patronised by University faculty. It was also in Cambridge that she and her 'lieutenant' Miss Riddell started a shorthand class to teach students at the university improved note taking. She was a consistent member of the Women's Suffrage Society and attended the 1899 International Congress of Women Workers in London representing the Liberal women of Cambridge, where she gave a speech on general education of women and business training in shorthand and typewriting.
Marshall, would die in 7 April 1901, aged 53, of cancer in London, having moved back after she sold her business in Cambridge due to her worsening health the previous year. She was buried in Hammersmith old cemetery.
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