When Josephine Butler died in 1906, she was declared by Millicent
Fawcett to have been 'the most distinguished Englishwoman of the
nineteenth century'. With impassioned speeches and fiery writing,
Butler's campaigns for women's rights shook Victorian society to
its core and became a force for change that has shaped modern
Britain. As well as campaigning for women's suffrage and for
married women's property rights she was a tireless advocate of
women's access to higher education and of equality in the
workplace. Her greatest achievement was to change social attitudes
to women and children forced into prostitution, and to expose the
sex-trafficking business - both of which resulted in new, more
humane legislation. But how did the physically frail wife of a
schoolmaster become a leading social reformer? In this brief
introduction Jane Robinson explores Butler's fascinating life and
describes how her progressive politics, her anger at injustice and
her passionate Christianity combined to create a vibrant legacy
that lasts to this day.
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