Society for the Suppression of Vice

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Reception Sappho
This drew on a female type established in the bohemian fiction of Honoré de Balzac , Eugène Sue , and others. Daudet's novel was the source of a play by Clyde Fitch which opened on...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Muriel Jaeger
MJ 's next chapter deals with the male counterparts of the previous chapter's examples (Frederic Lamb , but also Dugald Stewart and Henry Brougham ), setting the Society for the Suppression of Vice against...

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1 June 1787: A Royal Proclamation against vice laid the...

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1 June 1787

A Royal Proclamation against vice laid the first foundation for the Society for the Suppression of Vice , founded in 1802.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
under Beilby Porteus

By November 1802: The Society for the Suppression of Vice was...

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By November 1802

The Society for the Suppression of Vice was founded in London and grew into the gap left by the Proclamation Society ; ironically, it was often called the Vice Society.
Porter, Roy. English Society in the Eighteenth Century. Penguin, 1982.
312
Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800. Longman, 1981.
84
Mason, Michael. The Making of Victorian Sexual Attitudes. Oxford University Press, 1994.
69
Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
41-2

1804: The membership of the Society for the Suppression...

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1804

The membership of the Society for the Suppression of Vice stood at 1200; from this date it shrank steadily.
Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
42

By 1805: The Society for the Suppression of Vice brought...

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By 1805

The Society for the Suppression of Vice brought its first prosecutions to court.
Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
42, 45

1820: William Dugdale established himself as a...

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1820

William Dugdale established himself as a radical pressman; he later specialized in pornography.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 129
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 129-30

About 1820: The Society for the Suppression of Vice began...

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About 1820

The Society for the Suppression of Vice began to concentrate its efforts on the eradication of obscene printed materials.
Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
42-3

1838: In aggressive anti-obscenity campaigns in...

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1838

In aggressive anti-obscenity campaigns in this year, the Vice Society claimed to reduce to twenty-three from ninety the number of establishments selling obscene material.
Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
45-6

1868-1880: Over this period, the Vice Society confiscated...

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1868-1880

Over this period, the Vice Society confiscated more than 250,000 obscene prints and photographs.
Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
47-8

April 1878: London publisher Edward Truelove was convicted...

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April 1878

London publisher Edward Truelove was convicted after the Society for the Suppression of Vice raided his premises and seized literature on birth control.
Fryer, Peter. The Birth Controllers. Secker and Warburg, 1965.
167-9

1880: After this date, the Vice Society withdrew...

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1880

After this date, the Vice Society withdrew from its criminal prosecution of purveyors of obscenity.
Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
49

August 1885: The most powerful social purity organization,...

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August 1885

The most powerful social purity organization, the National Vigilance Association , was founded.
Petrow, Stefan. Policing Morals: The Metropolitan Police and the Home Office 1870-1914. Clarendon Press, 1994, p. 343.
122-5
Walkowitz, Judith R. City of Dreadful Delight. University of Chicago Press, 1992.
129

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