Some Thoughts on the Present Aspect of the Crusade

Some Thoughts on the Present Aspect of the Crusade Josephine Butler (Liverpool, 1874) Though before the timid counsels Truth and Right may seem to fail, God hath bathed his sword…

The Lovers of the Lost

The Lovers of the Lost Josephine Butler, The Contemporary Review 13 (1870) pp. 20-23 There are many who will ever believe the restoration of fallen women to be a useless and undesirable…

The Double Standard of Morality

The Double Standard of Morality Josephine Butler, The Philanthropist (October, 1886) As a floating straw indicates the flow of the tide, so there are certain expressions that have become almost proverbial and…

The Citizenship of Women

The Citizenship of Women: A Plea for Woman’s Suffrage Kier Hardie, in W.T. Stead (ed.), Coming Men on Coming Questions No: VI, (May, 18, 1905) It is not my purpose to write…

Gladstone and the Bulgarian Atrocities

Gladstone and the Bulgarian Atrocities George Horton, Excerpted from George Horton, The Blight of Asia (Indianapolis, 1926) ch II. In the list of massacres antedating the colossal crimes which have come under…

Madame Novikoff

Madame Novikoff Rev. W. Tcikwell Excerpted from Rev. W. Tcikwell, A. W. Kinglake: A Biographical and Literary Study (1902) The Cabinet Edition of “The Invasion of the Crimea” appeared in 1877, shortly…