Alice Jenkins

Standard Name: Jenkins, Alice

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17 February 1936

The Abortion Law Reform Association was founded to reform the law as enshrined in the Offences Against the Person Act of 1861. The idea arose from a conference organized the previous year by a doctor...

1960

Alice Jenkins published Law for the Rich, in which she argued that working-class women were denied access to safe surgical abortions in England.

Brookes, Barbara. Abortion in England: 1900-1967. Croom Helm, 1988.

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Dickens, Bernard M. Abortion and the Law. MacGibbon and Kee, 1966.

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Texts

Lucas, John, b. 1937. “Republican versus Victorian: Radical Writing in the Later Years of the Nineteenth Century”. Rethinking Victorian Culture, edited by Juliet John and Alice Jenkins, Macmillan, 2000, pp. 29-45.