Josephine Butler
British feminist and social reformer fighting to end child prostitution
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- 1828–1906
Updated September 2026
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Native Races and the War
The constitution violated
The education and employment of women
The constitutional iniquity involved in all forms of the regulation of prostitution
Address, delivered in Craigie Hall, Edinburgh, February 24th, 1871
Personal reminiscences of a great crusade
Rebecca Jarrett
About Josephine Butler
Josephine Elizabeth Butler was an English feminist and social reformer in the Victorian era. 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 women and children into European prostitution.
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