A Dirty, Filthy Book
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.
A Dirty, Filthy Book
Sex, Scandal, and One Woman’s Fight in the Victorian Trial of the Century
By: Michael Meyer
Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge
Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
Release date: 02-08-24
Language: English
Format and Bitrate: M4B@65 kbps
Size: 299.94 MB