""Her Victorian grace and her stanch wifeliness charmed many, but to the bureaucrats of England, Mrs. Josephine Butler was a holy terror. One Member of Parliament declared her to be 'worse than prostitutes,' and a powerful British newspaper editor wrote that she was 'a shrieking sister, frenzied, unsexed, and utterly without shame.' In time she earned herself the outlandish title of 'the single individual most responsible for the spread of syphilis' - a gross slander."--Book Jacket."
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