Butler, Josephine. Personal Reminiscences of a Great Crusade. Hyperion Press.
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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 | 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. 5-6 |
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. 193 Jordan, Jane. Josephine Butler. John Murray. 165 |
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... |
Textual Production | Josephine Butler | Among the other women who signed were Harriet Martineau
, Elizabeth Wolstenholme
, and Florence Nightingale
. The petition was compiled by the Ladies' National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts
;... |
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 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... |
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... |
politics | Laura Ormiston Chant | Much of LOC
's life was spent in social and political activism, particularly under the auspices of groups involved in working for women's rights (including the suffrage) and women's protection—that is, in favour of social... |
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... |
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... |
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