Category: Biographies
Josephine Butler was one of the great people of the world. In character, in work done, in influence on others, she was among that few great people who have moulded the course of things. The world is different because she lived. Like most of the very great people of the world,...
The death of her brother-in-law, Tell Meuricoffre, in the spring of 1900, and the death of his wife in the autumn of the same year, were a great sorrow to Josephine Butler, incr...
3. CHAPTER II.No record of Josephine Butler’s life would be at all true or complete which did not include some account of her husband. His strong and gentle spirit greatly influenced and aide...
11. CHAPTER IX.On the 25th of June, 1874, a few friends of the Abolitionist cause met to confer together at York. All were filled with a profound sense of the solemnity of the purpose which ha...
19. CHAPTER XVII.The Storm-Bell rings,—the Trumpet blows; I know the word and countersign; Wherever Freedom’s vanguard goes, Where stand or fall her friends or foes, I know the place that should...
6. CHAPTER IV.In the winter of 1865 my husband received one day a telegraphic message from Mr. Parker, of Liverpool, asking him if he would be willing to take the Principalship of the Liverpo...
15. CHAPTER XIII.We again visited Grindelwald (in 1885), where we had the joy of meeting once more the Meuricoffre family. We had magnificent weather, favourable to mountain and glacier excursio...
12. CHAPTER X.The year 1875 has few clear recollections for me personally, in direct connection with our cause. Six years of work, and more especially the winter months spent in very difficul...
21. CHAPTER XIX.When I received the announcement of the passing away, at ninety years of age, of Mr. Arthur Albright, my thoughts were carried back to many years ago. I felt a kind of peace in...
14. CHAPTER XII.In the spring of 1882 George Butler resigned the Principalship of Liverpool College, and three months later Mr. Gladstone appointed him to a Canonry at Winchester. This year Jos...
2. CHAPTER I.Josephine Elizabeth Grey was born at Milfield Hill, in the county of Northumberland, on April 13th, 1828. She was the fourth daughter of John Grey, and of his wife Hannah Annett...
17. CHAPTER XV._A Doomed Iniquity_ was the title of a pamphlet issued by Josephine Butler in 1896. It embodied an authoritative condemnation of State Regulation of Vice from persons of very di...
9. CHAPTER VII.Among our first and best helpers in our own town was my cousin, Charles Birrell, a Baptist minister, who had a church in Liverpool. There existed a strong friendship between him...
10. CHAPTER VIII.Josephine Butler’s publications in 1871 included _Sursum Corda_, the substance (much expanded) of a speech delivered at the annual meeting of the Ladies’ National Association, t...
7. CHAPTER V.Among the subjects concerning which my husband advanced with a quicker and firmer step than that of the society around him in general, stands that of the higher education of wom...
16. CHAPTER XIV.I told your chairman that I would come forward just to tell you that I cannot say anything. Still perhaps I may be able to put one little thought before you. I am sorry that fea...
18. CHAPTER XVI.The year 1896 was marked by the publication of _Personal Reminiscences of a Great Crusade_, in which Josephine Butler gives a vivid history of the first ten years of the strenuo...
8. CHAPTER VI.We now come to the period when Josephine Butler began the great work of her life, the crusade against the State regulation of vice. This system had its rise in France, being bro...
20. CHAPTER XVIII.An International Conference was held in Brussels in 1899, for the purpose of considering and promoting international action for the preventive treatment of venereal diseases. As...
4. CHAPTER III.In the autumn of 1857 my husband was invited to fill the post of Vice-Principal of the Cheltenham College. He accepted the invitation, and we went to Cheltenham the same year. H...
13. CHAPTER XI.In 1879 her writings included two pamphlets, _Government by Police_ and _Social Purity_, the latter being an address delivered at Cambridge. This year the Federation held its Co...
5. ill. His hands were cold, he had an unusual paleness in his face, andhe seemed faint. I was alarmed. I kneeled beside him, and, shaking myself out of my own stupor of grief, I spoke “comfortably” to him, and forced myself to talk cheerfully, even...
1. CHAPTER XX.Josephine Butler was one of the great people of the world. In character, in work done, in influence on others, she was among that few great people who have moulded the course of...
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