# A Dirty, Filthy Book

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- Authors: [Michael Meyer](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-meyer)
- Publisher: Wh Allen
- ISBN: 978-07-5355-994-9
- Pages: 400
- Published: 2025-02-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

‘Makes 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 women can practice law in England. At a time when women were expected to be obedient, Annie’s fearless voice was a sensation and spotlighted issues of sex, censorship and morality. A Dirty, Filthy Book tells the gripping story of a little-known pioneer who refused to accept the role that the establishment assigned her, and chose instead to resist.