Josephine Butler Society

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...

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...

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 ;...

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...

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...