Eliza Armstrong case
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The Eliza Armstrong case was a major scandal in the United Kingdom involving a child bought for prostitution for the purpose of exposing the evils of sexual slavery. While it achieved its purpose of h
W.T. Stead in later years
W. T. Stead photographed in his prison uniform
W. T. Stead
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William Thomas Stead was an English newspaper editor who, as a pioneer of investigative journalism, became a controversial figure of the Victorian era. Stead published a series of hugely influential c
Eliza Armstrong case
…While it achieved its purpose of helping to enable the passage of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885, it also brought unintended consequences to W. T. Stead. Since the middle of the 19th century, efforts by the Social Purity movement, led by early feminists such as Josephine Butler and others, sought to…
Stead as a child
Stead in 1881
Two titles from Stead's Masterpiece Library for Boys and Girls
Stead with his family, 1890s