JB
witnessed the accidental death of her only daughter, Evangeline
; her later activism sprang in part from the desire to drown her own sorrows in alleviating the greater misery of others.
Butler, Arthur Stanley George. Portrait of Josephine Butler. Faber and Faber, 1954.
52
Kelly, Gary, and Edd Applegate, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 190. Gale Research, 1998.
190: 66
Family and Intimate relationships
Josephine Butler
Her next child, Stanley
, was born by the spring of 1854. JB
was pregnant with Charles
in the summer of 1856, and possibly again pregnant with her youngest child Evangeline or Eva
as soon...
