The Spinster and Her Enemies - Feminish

NOTES TO PAGES 78–91
Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885, London, Women’s
Printing Society Ltd, n.d.
14 Ibid.
15 Ibid.
16 Vigilance Record, December 1895, p.65–6.
17 Criminal Law Amendment Committee, The Age of Consent,
London, C.L.A. Committee, 1912.
18 Ibid.
19 Vigilance Record, April 1917.
20 Ibid.
21 Ibid.
22 Association for Moral and Social Hygiene, Annual Reports,
1922–30.
23 Ibid.
24 Parliamentary Debates, 5 July 1922.
25 Ibid.
26 Parliamentary Debates, 3 March 1921.
27 Ibid.
28 Sheila Jeffreys, op. cit., pp. 56–66.
Chapter 5 Spinsterhood and Celibacy
1 Rosemary Auchmuty, ‘Victorian Spinsters’, Australian
National University, unpublished PhD thesis, 1975, p.9.
2 Ibid., p.12.
3 Ibid., p.19.
4 Patricia Hollis, Women in Public, London, Allen & Unwin,
1979, p.36.
5 W.R.Gregg, ‘Why are Women Redundant?’, National
Review, April 1862, quoted in Hollis, op. cit., p.37.
6 Maria Grey and Emily Shirreff, Thoughts on Self Culture,
quoted in Hollis, op. cit., p.12.
7 Auchmuty, op. cit., p.108.
8 Christabel Pankhurst, Plain Facts about a Great Evil, (The
Great Scourge and How to End It), London, Women’s Social
and Political Union, 1913, p.98.
9 Lucy Re-Bartlett, Sex and Sanctity, London, Longmans,
1912, p.25.
10 Ibid., p.26.
11 Ibid., p44.
12 bid., p.32.
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