In 2001 Jane published her critically acclaimed biography of Josephine Butler. That same year she was interviewed on Woman’s Hour and was a script consultant for the BBC programme The Victorians: Scandalous Women on which she was interviewed about Butler’s campaign methods. In 2006 she appeared on a special edition of Woman’s Hour, ‘Women & Philanthropy’, to mark the centenary of the deaths of both Butler and Angela Burdett-Coutts. Jane has been invited to give lectures on Butler at The Women’s Library, Liverpool Cathedral, University of Portsmouth (2006), Josephine Butler College, Durham University (2008), Liverpool University (2015), the Watts Gallery, Guildford (2017) and the Ethical Society (2018). Jane’s paper, ‘Josephine Butler and the Moral Reclaimability of Prostitutes’, given at the Church of England symposium held at Gladstone’s Library was published in the collection Josephine Butler in Modern Babylon (2007). In 2015 Jane was invited to contribute to the ‘Histories of Campaigning’ Symposium organised by History & Policy and Friends of the Earth (which led to the collection of essays, Campaigning for Change: Lessons from History, 2016). Lastly, in 2016 contributed the introductory essay ‘Prostitution and the Contagious Diseases Acts’ for Routledge History Resources: The History of Feminism.
Jane giving the address ...
... at the unveiling in 2001 of the plaque commemorating Butler placed by English Heritage at 8 North View, Wimbledon, where Butler lived in the early 1890s after her husband's death.
Butler campaigned across the UK and Europe ...
... this image demonstrates a remarkable aspect of her public speaking, namely that much of it was done to audiences which were largely male, and in the face of hostility. It was extraordinary for a woman to speak in public about sex and women's bodies.
Biography
Letters and pamphlets
Jane's five co-edited volumes of Josephine Butler's letters was published by Routledge in 2003.