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Ellice Hopkins

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30: 560: 126:, and in 1876 toured several British towns, recruiting thousands of women to the Ladies' Association for the Care of Friendless Girls. Her biographer describes her as "instrumental" in the passing of the Industrial Schools Amendment Act of 1880, which allowed children to be removed from hazardous homes (including brothels) and placed in 266: 146:
of Durham. "It was hard that the power which would have been a glory to me if I were a man, should be held a shame and a disgrace to me because I was a woman," she recalled of her work.
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Lovesey, Oliver (1 July 2013). ""The Poor Little Monstrosity": Ellice Hopkins' Rose Turquand, Victorian Disability, and Nascent Eugenic Fiction".
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Multiple chronic health issues led Hopkins to withdraw from public life in 1888. She died in 1904, aged 67 years, in Brighton. Fellow activist
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Mumm, Susan. "'I love my sex' : two late Victorian pulpit women", in Perry, Gill; Laurence, Anne; Bellamy, Joan (eds)
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Raphael, Melissa (September 1996). "J. Ellice Hopkins: The Construction of a Recent Spiritual Feminist Foremother".
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A passion for purity : Ellice Hopkins and the politics of gender in the late-Victorian church
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A plea for the wider action of the Church of England in the prevention of the degradation of women
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In 1874 Hopkins and rescue worker Sarah Robinson established the Soldier's Institute at
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Articulating Bodies: The Narrative Form of Disability and Illness in Victorian Fiction
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in 1883, and vigorously advocated moral purity while criticising contemporary sexual
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Hopkins wrote in a wide variety of genres, including two volumes of poetry,
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from 13 to 16, and criminalised male homosexuality. Hopkins co-founded the
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Women, scholarship and criticism : gender and knowledge, c.1790–1900
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Outspoken Women : an anthology of women's writing on sex: 1870-1969
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Ellice Hopkins, from the 1907 posthumous biography by Rosa Mary Barrett.
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Morgan, S. (2004). "Hopkins, (Jane) Ellice (1836–1904)".
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wrote a short biography of Hopkins, published in 1907.
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Lovesey, Oliver (2011). "Ellice Hopkins (1836-1904)".
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social campaigner and author. Hopkins co-founded the
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Christ the Consoler, A Book of Comfort for the Sick
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A photograph in an oval frame, of a white woman in the nineteenth century. She has hair center-parted and smoothed into a low chignon; she is wearing a dress with a high collar and voluminous sleeves. Under the oval frame is the signature "Ellice Hopkins".
Cambridge
Brighton
Victorian
White Cross Army
double standards
Cambridge
University of Cambridge
Julia Margaret Cameron
Brighton
Portsmouth
industrial schools
Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885
age of consent
White Cross Army
J. B. Lightfoot
sex education
Rosa Mary Barrett





Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/33978
UK public library membership
"'Knights of God': Ellice Hopkins and the White Cross Army, 1883–95"
doi
10.1017/S0424208400013796

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