Josephine Butler Society
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Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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... |
politics | Josephine Butler | Along with other members of the Ladies' National Association
, JB
firmly protested against the situation of women in British India, where the Contagious Diseases Acts continued to apply. She involved herself with the... |
Occupation | Mary Catherine Hume | MCH
was also an energetic speaker for the Ladies' National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts
and she frequently attended Plymouth and Devonport courthouses to observe related trials. Her presence there, like... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Isabella Ormston Ford | Isabella's brothers John Rawlinson
and Thomas Benson
were also active in public life, and they, too, shared Isabella's interest in the welfare of women and the working classes. Unlike her, however, they were both active... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Isabella Ormston Ford | IOF
's cousins Elizabeth Pease Nichol
and Katharine Blackhouse
were among the leaders of the Ladies' National Association
when it campaigned on the national stage for the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts. Another cousin,... |
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