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, 1971.
Drawing on her personal experiences as a mother, she raises the question of vaccination. She explains, It was not till, . . . I stood by to see my own baby vaccinated, that the preposterous...
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Q. D. Leavis
QDL
's review constitutes a personal and professional attack on Woolf, based primarily on three fronts: education, domesticity, and class. A footnote asserts that Woolf commenting on women's institutional education is voicing an opinion on...
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Frances Power Cobbe
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...
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Christabel Pankhurst
CP
alleges here that 75% to 80% of all Englishmen at this time consorted with prostitutes, caught sexually transmitted diseases, and then infected their innocent wives. She argues that two things are necessary to end...
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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, 1983, pp. 184-02.
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Strachey, Ray. Millicent Garrett Fawcett. J. Murray, 1931.
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Jan Morris
More than a decade later, in 1978, JM
followed her own portrait of Oxford by editing The Oxford Book of Oxford, a quirky anthology of often very short anecdotes and other excerpts, aimed less...
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Sophia Jex-Blake
While still a student at Edinburgh
, SJB
published, and dedicated to her American mentor Dr Lucy SewallMedical Women: Two Essays: i.e. Medicine as a Profession for Women (a revised version of her...
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Maude Royden
MR
was sensitive to the damage done by cultural stereotypes, prejudices, and assumptions about female sexuality. Much of her work argues defiantly against the sexual double standard and the widespread condemnation of female sexuality in...
GJ
regularly voiced her opinions on women's economic and professional independence. Her 1869 review of Josephine Butler
's Woman's Work and Woman's Culture: A Series of Essays describes women's desire to be taught thoroughly, to...
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Sara Maitland
This genre seems almost impossible in the late twentieth century, but the authors believe that saints today are potentially spiritual resources whose presences through the traces they have left behind in the minds of the...
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Una Marson
Through her editorship of the magazine, UM
drew attention to issues such as single motherhood, women struggling on meagre incomes, and unemployment among domestic workers. This is the age of woman: what man has done...
