A DIRTY FILTHY BOOK

‘Makes the case for Annie Besant as a truly eminent Victorian as brilliant and fearless as she was beautiful’ The Times_________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.