Legitimation League

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
politics	Mona Caird	MC stepped into the public eye in the 1880s as a radical member of the women's movement, a supporter of all kinds of linked causes. An article in the Review of Reviews in 1893 equated...
politics	Jane Hume Clapperton	JHC supported the Legitimation League , a society that advocated the equal treatment of illegitimate children and championed freedom in sexual relations, and the Malthusian League , which campaigned for preventative checks, or the...

Timeline

June 1897

The first issue of The Adult, a periodical from the Legitimation League , appeared: it campaigned for the rights of the illegitimate and for sex education.

McLaren, Angus. “Sex Radicalism in the Canadian Pacific Northwest 1890-1920”. American Sexual Politics: Sex, Gender and Race since the Civil War, edited by John C. Fout and Maura Shaw Tantillo, University of Chicago Press, 1993.

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Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800. Longman, 1981.

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31 May 1898

George Bedborough , secretary of the Legitimation League which sought to change the law to improve the position of illegitimate children, was arrested, largely in an attempt to damage the League through him.

Forward, Stephanie. “A Study in Yellow: Mona Caird’s ’The Yellow Drawing-Room’”. Women’s Writing, Vol.

, No. 2, 2000, pp. 295-07.

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30 October 1898

George Bedborough avoided trial for publishing an obscene libel (regarding volumes in Havelock Ellis 's series Studies in the Psychology of Sex, and the Legitimation League 's journal The Adult) by pleading guilty...

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