A SINGULAR INIQUITY:; The campaigns of Josephine Butler
first edition
1971 · NY
by PETRIE, Glen
NY: Viking, 1971. First edn. 8vo, pp. 317. Little water damage at top, o/w a good tight copy in llittle chipped dj.. OP. Biography of the woman who campaigned to repeal the Contagious Disease Acts of Victorian England, laws that left any poor or working class woman subject to police harassment and public persecution. She also fought the police corruption that facilitated an international trade in British children. (Inventory #: 21235)