Josephine Butler Society

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Textual Production Harriet Martineau
She was the first signatory to the petition published on 31 December 1869, also in the Daily News, by the Ladies' National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts . These four...
Textual Production Josephine Butler
Textual Production Josephine Butler
Several of her public addresses (which were later published) also touch on issues related to legislation and government policy on this topic. Her Address Delivered at Croydon, July 3, 1871, draws the parallel...
Textual Production Josephine Butler
She herself, working with the British, Continental, and General Federation for the Abolition of Government Regulation of Prostitution , had set up The Shield the previous month. JB saw it as not only a useful...
Textual Production Josephine Butler
Following the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts (on 20 April 1886), JB initiated and edited several periodicals to maintain international communication and alliances, to ensure that the Acts should not be reinstated, and particularly...
Textual Production Josephine Butler
The University of Liverpool holds the Josephine Butler Collections, an archive which comprises among other things articles, manuscripts, books, and photographs. The Women's Library , which houses the Josephine Butler Society Library, also has...
Textual Production Millicent Garrett Fawcett
MGF was eighty at the time of writing this book, but still active both physically and mentally. The book was published by the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene . The Association was formed in...
Textual Features Josephine Butler
They were requested to produce this work by the Ladies' National Association for the Abolition of Government Regulation of Vice . It is primarily autobiographical since the Johnsons largely compiled it from her own publications:...
Reception Josephine Butler
In December 1927, as the centenary of JB 's birth approached, the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene published Dame Millicent Fawcett and E. M. Turner 's Josephine Butler: Her Work and Principles, and Their...
politics Josephine Butler
JB became president of the Ladies' National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts (the LNA) which later became the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene .
Butler herself says she was president...
politics Sarah Grand
From the time she was fifteen, SG had supported Josephine Butler 's crusade against the Contagious Diseases Acts of 1864, 1866, and 1869. (She admired Butler but never met her.) The medical knowledge SG gleaned...
politics Josephine Butler
JB received a letter from Daniel Cooper , secretary of the Rescue Society , supporting the efforts of the Ladies' National Association to repeal the Contagious Diseases Acts.
Butler, Josephine. Personal Reminiscences of a Great Crusade. Hyperion Press.
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politics Josephine Butler
JB was present at the inaugural meeting of the British, Continental, and General Federation for the Abolition of Government Regulation of Prostitution ; she and Henry Wilson served as joint-secretaries.
Caine, Barbara. Victorian Feminists. Oxford University Press.
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Jordan, Jane. Josephine Butler. John Murray.
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politics Harriet Martineau
When the Ladies' National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts was formed in December 1869, HM 's was one of the leading signatories. She also participated in the same campaign through articles...
politics Josephine Butler
Judith R. Walkowitz suggests that the LNA 's political following owed a great deal to the charismatic appeal of Josephine Butler , whose speeches against the instrumental rape of working women under the acts electrified...

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December 1869: The Ladies' National Association for the...

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December 1869

The Ladies' National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts was formed as part of the movement to repeal the Contagious Diseases Acts.

31 December 1869: The Daily News published the Ladies' Protest,...

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31 December 1869

The Daily News published the Ladies' Protest, a document signed by 124 women which outlined their arguments for the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts.

1870: The National Association for the Promotion...

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1870

The National Association for the Promotion of Social Purity was founded to ensure purity as the law of individual and social life.
Hunt, Alan. Governing Morals: A Social History of Moral Regulation. Cambridge University Press.
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1871: The Ladies' National Association for the...

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1871

The Ladies' National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts had 57 branches and 811 subscribing members in this year.

1885: By this time, Ellice Hopkins' Ladies' Association...

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1885

By this time, Ellice Hopkins ' Ladies' Association for the Care of the Lost had branches in 85 towns.

1886: By this date, the Ladies' National Association...

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1886

By this date, the Ladies' National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts claimed that more than 500,000 forced exams of prostitutes had shown no sign of disease in the women.

1915: The Ladies' National Association for the...

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1915: The Ladies' National Association for the...

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November 1970: The Shield ended publication in London....

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November 1970

The Shield ended publication in London.

October 1971: News and Views of the Josephine Butler Society...

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October 1971

News and Views of the Josephine Butler Society began publication in Hatfield, Hertfordshire.

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