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...
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Josephine Butler
JB
published a lengthy pamphlet, The New Era, in opposition to Henry Austin Bruce
's bill to amend the Contagious Diseases Acts.
Jordan, Jane. Josephine Butler. John Murray, 2001.
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Josephine Butler
JB
's opinions about the repeal campaign were firm and unwavering. She occasionally lost supporters because she refused to accept moderate changes or amendments. She sought total repeal, nothing less. For this reason her pamphlet...
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28 March 1867: H. A. Bruce presented Parliament with a women's...
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28 March 1867
H. A. Bruce
presented Parliament with a women's suffrage petition bearing 3,559 signatures.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
