Society for the Suppression of Vice

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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...
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...

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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