Sir James Stansfeld

Standard Name: Stansfeld, Sir James

Connections

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Friends, Associates Sophia Jex-Blake
James Stansfeld had long been in correspondence with SJB , and reflected on the success of the women's movement in Edinburgh: Dr. Sophia Jex-Blake has made that greatest of all contributions to the end...
Friends, Associates Jessie White Mario
While visiting Italy, JWM stayed with Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning at Casa Guidi. (Years later they had an unpleasant public debate over Italian politics.) She met Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon in Rome, beginning...
Occupation Frances Power Cobbe
FPC became, with George Hoggan , Honorary Secretary of the new society, which they co-founded. Prominent supporters included the Earl of Shaftesbury , who became the first president, the Archbishop of York , politicians James Stansfeld
politics Josephine Butler
JB also provided unfavourable response to the Bruce Bill put forward by Henry Austin Bruce in 1872, which offered modifications to some child sex laws, but no abolition of state regulation of prostitution. To the...
Publishing Sophia Jex-Blake
With enthusiasm, the editor of The Nineteenth Century printed a paper submitted by SJB which re-uses her monographic title Medical Women and was written to complement the one contributed by Sir James Stansfeld ten years...
Textual Production Jessie White Mario
The editors were vague in their commitment to her, but she presented herself as the paper's employee. Mazzini had urged her to apply for the post and James Stansfeld had helped her begin negotiations with...
Textual Production Jessie White Mario
At the time of her death, she left unfinished a family history, a novel, and a biography of James Stansfeld .
Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press, 1972.
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Timeline

1871: Mme Venturi became editor of the anti-Contagious...

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1871

Mme Venturi became editor of the anti-Contagious Diseases Acts publication The Shield.
Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.
120
Walkowitz, Judith R. Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
92

18 January 1874: Mrs Nassau Senior was appointed as the first...

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18 January 1874

Mrs Nassau Senior was appointed as the first female Inspector of workhouse and pauper schools: the appointment was at first temporary, but became permanent the next month.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
153, 180
Martindale, Hilda. Women Servants of the State, 1870-1938: A History of Women in the Civil Service. G. Allen and Unwin , 1938.
30, 32
Holcombe, Lee. Victorian Ladies At Work: Middle-Class Working Women in England and Wales, 1850-1914. Archon Books, 1973.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
under William Nassau Senior

15 October 1874: James Stansfeld gave a speech at Bristol...

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15 October 1874

James Stansfeld gave a speech at Bristol strongly in favour of the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts.
Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.
117
Walkowitz, Judith R. Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
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Walkowitz, Judith R. Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
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Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.
117
Butler, Josephine. Personal Reminiscences of a Great Crusade. Hyperion Press, 1989.
68

Late 1874: The National Medical Association was formed...

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Late 1874

The National Medical Association was formed in Liverpool to organize support among the medical community for the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts.
Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.
123

20 April 1883: James Stansfeld presented to Parliament a...

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20 April 1883

James Stansfeld presented to Parliament a successful motion that the House disapproves of the compulsory examination of women under the Contagious Diseases Acts,
Walkowitz, Judith R. Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
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effectively suspending them.
Walkowitz, Judith R. Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
98-9
Walkowitz, Judith R. Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
98-9
McHugh, Paul. Prostitution and Victorian Social Reform. 1980th ed., Croom Helm, 1980.
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