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Blackburn was born in Knightstown, company Kerry, Ireland, the daughter of Bewicke Blackburn, a civil engineer, of company
Blackburn was also an editor of the Englishwoman"s Review. Kerry and Isabella Lamb of company Durham. When her family moved to London in 1859, she soon came into contact with the women of the Langham Place Group, especially Jessie Boucherett and Emily Faithfull.
Over the years Blackburn and Boucherett worked together in a number of endeavors.
Both were editors of the Englishwoman"s Review (Blackburn, editor, 1880-1890. Joint editor, 1890-1895).
They also together edited The Condition of Working Women and the Factory Acts, 1896. Blackburn joined the National Society for Women"s Suffrage in 1872 and was secretary of the executive committee of the society from 1874 to 1880.
She subsequently held similar positions in a number of related organizations.
She also took opportunities to study, first in 1875, taking a class in Roman Law at University College London, and later (1886-1888) classes at University College, Bristol. In the early 1890s, she assisted Charlotte Carmichael Stopes in her writing of British Freewomen: Their Historical Privilege by supplying her own notes on the subject, then by purchasing the whole of the first edition in 1894. Her long term connection with the women"s movement allowed her to write her history of the Victorian women"s suffrage campaign, Women"s suffrage: a record of the women"s suffrage movement in the British Isles, with biographical sketches of Mission Becker, finished in 1902, shortly before her death the following year, at Greycoat Gardens, Westminster, on 11 January 1903, aged 60, and was buried at Brompton cemetery.
She left her personal library along with her archives to Girton College, Cambridge.
Her will also made provisions for establishing a loan fund for training young women.
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Together they established the Women"s Employment Defence League in 1891, to defend women"s working rights against restrictive employment legislation.