Sasha asked:

I have heard of a female philosopher known as Welby. But I cannot find anything on her (except a
small mention now and then). I can only get information on Augustus Welby and that is not who I am
looking for (I know because he is a man) I am very interested in finding her. One of the many reasons
being that I can't find her easily (I cant easily back down from such a challenge). Any help on this
subject would be greatly appreciated, in the meantime I will continue looking.

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You probably want Lady Welby. Here's one: Semiotic and Significs: The Correspondence Between
Charles S. Peirce and Victoria Lady WelbyEd. by Charles S. Hardwick & J. Cook (1977)
Bloomington: Indiana University Press. An important collection of Peirce's correspondence with the
English linguist Victoria Lady Welby between 1903 and 1911. Semiotic and Significs, which
supersedes an earlier collection edited by Irwin C. Lieb, is rich in sign-theoretical content, and
constitutes an important document in the history of semiotics. The collection is of particular interest
for Peirce studies as it displays many important phases in the development of Peirce's later
semeiotic, and includes material unavailable elsewhere.

Another: Essays on Significs: Papers presented on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth
of Victoria Lady Welby (1837-1912)Schmitz, H. Walter (ed.) Number in series: 23 1989. xv, 313 pp.

Another: http://www.macalester.edu/~warren/courses/P50-01_timeln.htm

Another: A main contention of writers on general semantics, namely, that everyday language and, to
a large degree, scientific and technical languages especially in fields not yet made rigorous, are
permeated with prescientific structural assumptions, is therefore no surprise to any competently
trained linguistic student. The logical consequences of this fact, that everyday discussion, public
controversy, and even scientific discourse, are often made fruitless or meaningless by the unnoticed
intrusion of obsolete prescientific assumptions, is also a familiar notion, vigorously argued by Lady
Welby (fn 4 Viola Welby, What is Meaning?(1903).

Another: Discussion on 'An apparent paradox in mental evolution', Lady Welby Journal of the
Anthropological Institute20, pp.304-23. 1890

Another: Welby, Victoria Lady. Significs and LanguageJohn Benjamins.

That should get you started.

Steven Ravett Brown