Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Josephine Butler
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Standard Name: Butler, Josephine
Birth Name: Josephine Elizabeth Grey
Married Name: Josephine Elizabeth Butler
Used Form: an English mother
Used Form: the author of the Memoir of John Grey of Dilston
Social reformer JB
is primarily remembered for her unrelenting efforts in the campaign against the Contagious Diseases Acts during the second half of the nineteenth century. She was both a gifted orator and a prolific writer on the many causes she espoused. Author of nearly forty pamphlets, she also composed books of political and personal writings: essays, biographies of people whose lives influenced her own, and an autobiography. Almost all of her writings address questions of social and political import—the repeal campaign, the double sexual standard, women's rights, and religious issues.
Petrie, Glen. A Singular Iniquity: The Campaigns of Josephine Butler. Macmillan.
Emily, born five years ahead of Isabella in 1850, attended the Slade School of Art
in the late 1870s and became a painter well-known in the Leeds community. Like IOF
, she also became a...
Friends, Associates
Isabella Ormston Ford
Through her mother's connection with the women's movement of the mid-Victorian period, IOF
met Millicent Garrett Fawcett
and her sister Agnes Garrett
, with whom Isabella and her sister Bessie became close friends and correspondents...
Textual Production
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
MGF
collaborated with E. M. Turner
in a biography entitled Josephine Butler
: Her Work and Principles, and Their Meaning for the Twentieth Century, to celebrate the centenary of Butler's birth the next year.
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Oakley, Ann et al. “Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Duty and Determination”. Feminist Theorists, edited by Dale Spender, Reprint, Pantheon Books, pp. 184-02.
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Strachey, Ray. Millicent Garrett Fawcett. J. Murray.
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Friends, Associates
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Through this work MGF
met Josephine Butler
, whom she greatly admired.
The theoretical essay with which FPC
headed Josephine Butler
's landmark collection Woman's Work and Woman's Culture, 1869, launches out with wit: Of all the theories current concerning women, none is more curious than...
Reception
Frances Power Cobbe
FPC
's importance to her contemporaries is most readily recalled today by the fact that Matthew Arnold
thought her a worthy target of his corrective wisdom in The Function of Criticism at the Present Time...
politics
Laura Ormiston Chant
In addition to her other political activities, Chant was heavily involved in the activities of the National Vigilance Association
. She edited its journal, the Vigilance Record, and took a leading role (alongside Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Anthologization
Jessie Boucherett
JB
's essay How to Provide for Superfluous Women appeared in Josephine Butler
's Woman's Work and Woman's Culture.
Hays, Frances. Women of the Day. Chatto and Windus.
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Friends, Associates
Jessie Boucherett
Partly through her membership of the Kensington Society
(a social and political discussion group of about fifty women inaugurated in 1865), JB
broadened her acquaintance with significant members of the feminist movement, including Frances Power Cobbe
Publishing
Jessie Boucherett
It was no doubt in connection with this essay that JB
also contributed, in July this year, another, entitled Employment of Women, to Josephine Butler
's short-lived periodical Now-a-Days.
Family and Intimate relationships
Annie Besant
AB
's husband
took up a post as an assistant mathematics master at Cheltenham College
, a public school for boys in Gloucestershire.
Josephine Butler
had moved from Cheltenham just before AB
's arrival.
Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
