Butler, Josephine. Personal Reminiscences of a Great Crusade. Hyperion Press.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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,... |
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... |
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 | 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 | 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 |
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