About this Book

This series of exposés which, in July 1885, shocked London into a grim awareness of the white-slave trade, and eventually forced parliament to pass the Criminal Law Amendment Act, were plublished in W.T. Stead's Pall Mall Gazette. The exposé was published over several days, and in its entirety is too long to reproduce here. The following abbreviated excerpt is from Part I and is intended to provide the reader an experience of what Londoners and Salvationists read in the days when 'The Maiden Tribute' became a cause célebre which eventually lead to Stead and Bramwell Booth being prosecuted and Stead spending time in jail.