THE MAIDEN TRIBUTE OF MODERN BABYLON.
REPORT OF THE SECRET COMMISSION


By W.T. Stead

Edited and with annotations and an introductory essay by Antony E. Simpson

Originally published in the Pall Mall Gazette in 1885.

Lambertville, NJ: The True Bill Press. 207p.

ISBN-10: 0-9791116-0-9

ISBN-13: 978-0-9791116-0-0

Published October 2007 in hard cover at a price of $65.00



A reprint of a classic report on child prostitution in London researched and written in 1885 by a leading journalist of the time. Generally credited with ensuring the passage of a major item of legislation, the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885, was designed to protect young girls from sexual abuse. Published here in its entirety as a monograph for the first time.

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