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A Dirty, Filthy Book : Sex, Scandal, and One Woman’s Fight in the Victorian Trial of the Century, Hardback Book

A Dirty, Filthy Book : Sex, Scandal, and One Woman’s Fight in the Victorian Trial of the Century Hardback

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 Drawing on unpublished archives, private papers and courtroom transcripts – and featuring an incredible cast including Queen Victoria, George Bernard Shaw and London itself – A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