While reformers warmly greeted these developments, many believed that further changes were necessary. A group of young, educated feminist that included Bodichon, Bessie Parkes (1829-1925) emerged in the 1850s, committed to campaigning further rights for women. Under the direction of Davies and Parkes, this group founded the English Woman's Journal in 1858 as the first periodical dedicated solely to a serious consideration of woman's issues. Its offices were in Langham Place in central London, and the young feminist who gathered there founded the Langham Place Circle in 1859 to organize for woman's legal, economic, and educational rights. They established the society for promoting the employment of women, which had a Ladies' Institute at the Langham Place offices the provided a job register, reading room, and lunchroom, a well as a postal address for women seeking work. Another member of the group, Emily Faithfull (1835-1895), founded the Victoria press with the goal to become compositors, and she went on to be named the printer and publisher in ordinary to the queen. .
Many reformers realized that finding jobs for women was not enough; women needed access to better education as well. In 1848 Queen's College was founded in London as the first school to provide training and certificates of proficiency for governesses. One early Queen's student. Frances Mary Buss (1827-1894), was a dedicated education reformer who, in 1850, founded the North London Collegiate School for girls where a rigorous curriculum, based on that used in boys' private secondary schools, made it a model for women's secondary day school. Reformers also turned their attention to higher education, possibly inspired by America where women had been first admitted to Oberlin College in 1837 and Antioch College in 1853, and where the first women's college, Vassar, was established in 1861. Emily Davies published The Higher Education of Women (1866), which argued that because there was no fundamental intellectual difference between women and men, both should receive the same rigorous education.
