Josephine Butler
Josephine Elizabeth Butler (née Grey; 13 April 1828 – 30 December 1906) 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 abolition of child prostitution, and an end to human trafficking of young women and children into European prostitution.
Josephine Butler | |
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 Butler in 1851, portrait by George Richmond | |
| Born | Josephine Elizabeth Grey 13 April 1828 Milfield, Northumberland, England, UK |
| Died | 30 December 1906 (aged 78) England, UK |
| Cause of death | Natural death |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Social worker |
| Years active | 1869–1886 |
| Known for | Victorian feminist Contagious Diseases Acts |
| Spouse(s) | George Butler (m. 1852 – 1890 [his death]) |
| Children | George Butler Arthur Charles Butler Charles Augustin Vaughan Butler Evangeline Mary Butler (1859–1864) |
| Parent(s) | John Grey (1785–1868) Hannah Eliza Annett (1792 – 15 May 1860) |
Personal life
She was a Christian. Josephine married George Butler in 1852.
Josephine Butler Media
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
The English social reformer and feminist Josephine 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-election
James Stansfeld, the first general secretary of the International Abolitionist Federation, caricature by Carlo Pellegrini in Vanity Fair
William Gladstone, a friend of the Butlers, and a tacit supporter of Butler's work
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