A Dirty, Filthy Book: Annie Besant’s Fight for Reproductive Rights by Michael Meyer #literature Both women fought to escape

Both women fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up—a prison of conformity

the Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral

Will you find the culprit(s)

and the young elephants are very excited

A Dirty, Filthy Book: Annie Besant’s Fight for Reproductive Rights by Michael Meyer #literature Both women fought to escapeMakes the case for Annie Besant as a truly eminent Victorian, as brilliant and fearless as she was beautiful The Times 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 crime of publishing a birth control pamphlet. Remarkably, Annie is defending herself against obscenity charges 45 years before