What is Josephine Butler?
{{no sources|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox person | name=Josephine Butler | image=Josephine Butler.jpg | image_caption= Butler in 1851, portrait by [[George Richmond]] | birth_name=Josephine Elizabeth Grey | birth_date={{birth date|df=yes|1828|4|13}} | birth_place=[[Milfield]], Northumberland, England, UK | nationality=British | occupation=[[Social work]]er | years_active=1869–1886 | known_for=[[Victorian era|Victorian]] [[Feminism|feminist]]<br />[[Contagious Diseases Acts]] | death_date={{death date and age|df=yes|1906|12|30|1828|4|13}} | death_place=England, UK | death_cause=[[Death by natural causes|Natural death]] | spouse=George Butler (m. 1852 – 1890 [his death]) | children=George Butler<br />Arthur Charles Butler<br />Charles Augustin Vaughan Butler<br />Evangeline Mary Butler (1859–1864) | parents=John Grey (1785–1868)<br />Hannah Eliza Annett (1792 – 15 May 1860) }} '''Josephine Elizabeth Butler''' (''née'' '''Grey'''; 13 April 1828 – 30 December 1906) was an English feminist and social reformer in the Victorian era. She campaigned for women's suffrage, the right of women to better education, the end of coverture in British law, the abolition of child prostitution, and an end to human trafficking of young women and children into European prostitution. ==Personal life== She was a Christian. Josephine married George Butler in 1852. ==References== {{reflist}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Butler, Josephine}} [[Category:1828 births]] [[Category:1906 deaths]] [[Category:British feminists]] [[Category:English Christians]] [[Category:English writers]] [[Category:People from Northumberland]] [[Category:19th-century English writers]]