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]

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.[2]

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. "National Vigilance Association - banning of Zola's novels". The Literary Encyclopedia. 15 February 2008. Retrieved December 28, 2012.


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