EAN: 9780753559932

A DIRTY FILTHY BOOK - MICHAEL MEYER KARTONIERT ...

London  1877. A petite young woman stands before an all-male jury  about to risk everything.
She takes a breath  and opens her defence. Annie Besant and her confidant Charles Bradlaugh are
on trial for the sordid crime of publishing and selling a birth control pamphlet. Remarkably -
forty-five years before the first woman will be admitted to the English bar - Annie is
defending herself. Before Britain's highest judge she declares it is a woman's right to choose
when  and if  to have children. At a time when women were legally and socially subservient to
men  Annie's defiant voice was a sensation. The riveting trial scandalised newspapers 
captivated the British public and sparked a debate over morals  censorship and sex. Drawing on
unpublished archives  private papers and courtroom transcripts - and featuring an incredible
cast including Queen Victoria  George Bernard Shaw and London itself - A Dirty  Filthy Book
tells the gripping story of a forgotten pioneer who refused to accept the role the
Establishment assigned to her. Instead  she chose to resist.

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