Josephine Butler
British feminist and social reformer fighting to end child prostitution (1828-1906) · United Kingdom · On the map · Activists · Died at 78
Josephine Elizabeth Butler was an English feminist and social reformer in the Victorian era.
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Butler in 1851, portrait by George Richmond
John Grey, Butler's father, portrait by George Patten
George Butler, Josephine's husband
Bust of Butler in 1865, aged 36, by Alexander Munro
Butler's hostel for women, Liverpool in a derelict condition in 2009 before its demolition
Butler in 1876
The Home Secretary, Henry Bruce, who set up a Royal Commission in 1871 to examine the Contagious Diseases Acts
Handbill issued prior to a talk during the 1872 Pontefract by-electionAbout this person
She campaigned for women's suffrage, the right of women to better education, the end of coverture in British law, the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts, the abolition of child prostitution and an end to human trafficking of young women and children into European prostitution.
