National Vigilance Association

The National Vigilance Association was a British society established in August 1885 "for the enforcement and improvement of the laws for the repression of criminal vice and public immorality".[1][2][3]

The Association was established in response to articles exposing child prostitution published by W. T. Stead in the Pall Mall Gazette. Stead became a member of its council.[4]

Notes
  1. Fellion, Matthew; Inglis, Katherine (2017-09-05). Censored: A Literary History of Subversion and Control. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. ISBN 9780773551893.
  2. Black, Eugene Charlton (1988). The social politics of Anglo-Jewry, 1880-1920. Oxford, UK: B. Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-16491-X. OCLC 18106629.
  3. Rachael Attwood, "Stopping the Traffic: the National Vigilance Association and the international fight against the ‘white slave’ trade (1899–c. 1909)." Women's history review 24.3 (2015): 325-350. online
  4. "National Vigilance Association - banning of Zola's novels". The Literary Encyclopedia. 15 February 2008. Retrieved December 28, 2012.
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