EAN: 9780753559932

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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 Drawing on unpublished archives private papers and courtroom transcripts - and featuring an incredible cast including Queen Victoria George Bernard Shaw and London itself - A Dirty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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