Josephine Butler

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Standard Name: Butler, Josephine
Birth Name: Josephine Elizabeth Grey
Married Name: Josephine Elizabeth Butler
Used Form: an English mother
Used Form: the author of the Memoir of John Grey of Dilston
Social reformer JB is primarily remembered for her unrelenting efforts in the campaign against the Contagious Diseases Acts during the second half of the nineteenth century. She was both a gifted orator and a prolific writer on the many causes she espoused. Author of nearly forty pamphlets, she also composed books of political and personal writings: essays, biographies of people whose lives influenced her own, and an autobiography. Almost all of her writings address questions of social and political import—the repeal campaign, the double sexual standard, women's rights, and religious issues.
Petrie, Glen. A Singular Iniquity: The Campaigns of Josephine Butler. Macmillan.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sara Maitland
This genre seems almost impossible in the late twentieth century, but the authors believe that saints today are potentially spiritual resources whose presences through the traces they have left behind in the minds of the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Una Marson
Through her editorship of the magazine, UM drew attention to issues such as single motherhood, women struggling on meagre incomes, and unemployment among domestic workers. This is the age of woman: what man has done...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Margaret Forster
For subjects of particular chapters she chooses Caroline Norton , Elizabeth Blackwell , Florence Nightingale , Josephine Butler , Elizabeth Cady Stanton , Margaret Sanger , and Emma Goldman , selected this time not for...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Geraldine Jewsbury
GJ regularly voiced her opinions on women's economic and professional independence. Her 1869 review of Josephine Butler 's Woman's Work and Woman's Culture: A Series of Essays describes women's desire to be taught thoroughly, to...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ray Strachey
The book starts with an account of Mary Wollstonecraft 's work, and proceeds decade by decade, citing Florence Nightingale , Josephine Butler , John Stuart Mill , Sophia Jex-Blake , and many others. Its heroine...
Textual Production Millicent Garrett Fawcett
MGF collaborated with E. M. Turner in a biography entitled Josephine Butler : Her Work and Principles, and Their Meaning for the Twentieth Century, to celebrate the centenary of Butler's birth the next year.
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Strachey, Ray. Millicent Garrett Fawcett. J. Murray.
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Textual Production Jan Morris
More than a decade later, in 1978, JM followed her own portrait of Oxford by editing The Oxford Book of Oxford, a quirky anthology of often very short anecdotes and other excerpts, aimed less...
Textual Production Maude Royden
MR was sensitive to the damage done by cultural stereotypes, prejudices, and assumptions about female sexuality. Much of her work argues defiantly against the sexual double standard and the widespread condemnation of female sexuality in...
Textual Production Sophia Jex-Blake
While still a student at Edinburgh , SJB published, and dedicated to her American mentor Dr Lucy SewallMedical Women: Two Essays: i.e. Medicine as a Profession for Women (a revised version of her...
Textual Features Q. D. Leavis
QDL 's review constitutes a personal and professional attack on Woolf, based primarily on three fronts: education, domesticity, and class. A footnote asserts that Woolf commenting on women's institutional education is voicing an opinion on...
Textual Features Christabel Pankhurst
CP alleges here that 75% to 80% of all Englishmen at this time consorted with prostitutes, caught sexually transmitted diseases, and then infected their innocent wives. She argues that two things are necessary to end...
Textual Features Mary Catherine Hume
Drawing on her personal experiences as a mother, she raises the question of vaccination. She explains, It was not till, . . . I stood by to see my own baby vaccinated, that the preposterous...
Textual Features Frances Power Cobbe
The theoretical essay with which FPC headed Josephine Butler 's landmark collection Woman's Work and Woman's Culture, 1869, launches out with wit: Of all the theories current concerning women, none is more curious than...
Reception Sophia Jex-Blake
This book was well received by most American universities, as it represented them in a favourable light compared to the more segregated British ones. The publisher Macmillan thought highly enough of SJB 's work to...
Reception Frances Power Cobbe
FPC 's importance to her contemporaries is most readily recalled today by the fact that Matthew Arnold thought her a worthy target of his corrective wisdom in The Function of Criticism at the Present Time...

Timeline

1866: Anne Jemima Clough and Josephine Butler founded...

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1866

Anne Jemima Clough and Josephine Butler founded the Liverpool Ladies' Educational Society to provide a serious course of lectures for women.

1867: The Liverpool Ladies' Educational Society...

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1868: Anne Jemima Clough organised Lectures for...

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1868

Anne Jemima Clough organised Lectures for Ladies throughout Northern England.

January 1869: The Kettledrum: The Woman's Signal for Action,...

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January 1869

The Kettledrum: The Woman's Signal for Action, a feminist magazine, began publication in London by merger with Woman's World.

June 1869: The Kettledrum: The Woman's Signal for Action...

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June 1869

The Kettledrum: The Woman's Signal for Action ended publication in London in its current form.

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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26 February 1870: Josephine Butler wrote to the Dover News...

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26 February 1870

Josephine Butler wrote to the Dover News complaining of a conspiracy of silence
Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester.
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emanating from London papers regarding the controversial Contagious Diseases Acts.

7 March 1870: The Shield, Josephine Butler's periodical...

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7 March 1870

The Shield, Josephine Butler 's periodical organ of the anti-Contagious Diseases Act forces, began publication in South Shields.

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.

From March 1871: The Vigilance Association for the Defence...

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From March 1871

The Vigilance Association for the Defence of Personal Rights, especially in relation to Women , founded this month, advocated equality of legal treatment for citizens regardless of sex or class.

1872: Samuel Butler anonymously published, at his...

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1872

Samuel Butler anonymously published, at his own expense, his satiricalnovelErewhon.

: Female Contagious Diseases Acts repealers...

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Autumn1872

Female Contagious Diseases Acts repealers were attacked in Pontefract, as they held a meeting to organize electoral lobbying.

1873: The National Association for the Promotion...

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1873

The National Association for the Promotion of Social Purity (founded in 1870) was reborn as the Social Purity Alliance under the direction of Josephine Butler .

Texts

Butler, Josephine. A Letter to the Mothers of England. 1881.
Butler, Josephine. “A Letter to the Mothers of England”. The Campaigners: Women and Sexuality, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts and Tamae Mizuta, Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1994.
Butler, Josephine. An Appeal to the People of England on the Recognition and Superintendence of Prostitution by Governments. Frederick Banks, 1870.
Butler, Josephine. “An Appeal to the People of England on the Recognition and Superintendence of Prostitution by Governments”. The Sexuality Debates, edited by Sheila Jeffreys and Sheila Jeffreys, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987, pp. 111-50.
Butler, Josephine. Catharine of Siena. Dyer Brothers, 1878.
Wedgwood, Julia. “Female Suffrage, Considered Chiefly with Regard to its Indirect Results”. Women’s Work and Women’s Culture, edited by Josephine Butler, Macmillan, 1869.
Butler, Josephine. Government by Police. Dyer Brothers, 1879.
Boucherett, Jessie. “How to Provide for Superfluous Women”. Woman’s Work and Woman’s Culture, edited by Josephine Butler, Macmillan, 1869, pp. 27-48.
Butler, Josephine. In Memoriam: Harriet Meuricoffre. Marshall and Son, 1901.
Butler, Josephine, and James Stuart. Josephine E. Butler: An Autobiographical Memoir. Editors Johnson, George W. and Lucy A. Johnson, J. W. Arrowsmith, 1909.
Butler, Josephine, and James Stuart. Josephine E. Butler: An Autobiographical Memoir. Editors Johnson, George W. and Lucy A. Johnson, J. W. Arrowsmith, 1928.
Butler, Josephine. Legislative Restrictions on the Industry of Women. Matthews and Sons, 1874.
Jex-Blake, Sophia. “Medicine as a Profession for Women”. Woman’s Work and Woman’s Culture, edited by Josephine Butler, Macmillan, 1869, pp. 78-120.
Butler, Josephine. Memoir of John Grey of Dilston. Edmonston and Douglas, 1869.
Butler, Josephine. Mrs. Butler’s Appeal to the Women of America. The Philanthropist, 1888.
Butler, Josephine. Native Races and the War. Gay and Bird, 1900.
Butler, Josephine. “Native Races and the War, 1900”. Indiana University: Victorian Women Writers Project.
Butler, Josephine, editor. Now-a-Days.
Butler, Josephine. Our Christianity Tested by the Irish Question. T. Fisher Unwin, 1887.
Butler, Josephine. Personal Reminiscences of a Great Crusade. H. Marshall and Son, 1896.
Butler, Josephine. Personal Reminiscences of a Great Crusade. Hyperion Press, 1989.
Butler, Josephine. Personal Reminiscences of a Great Crusade. Cambridge University Press, 2010, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Stuart, James et al. “Preface and Editorial Materials”. Josephine E. Butler: An Autobiographical Memoir, edited by George W. Johnson and Lucy A. Johnson, J. W. Arrowsmith, 1928, p. v - vii; various pages.
Butler, Josephine. “Prefatory Biographical Note”. Personal Reminiscences of a Great Crusade, Hyperion Press, 1989, p. xi - xvi.
Butler, Josephine. Rebecca Jarrett. Morgan and Scott, 1885.