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Timothy Shay Arthur. Timothy Shay Arthur (June 6, 1809 – March 6, 1885) — known as T. S. Arthur — was a popular 19th-century American writer. He is famously known for his temperance novel Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There (1854), which helped demonize alcohol in the eyes of the American public.
Margaret Eleanor Parker (1827–1896) was a British social activist, social reformer, and travel writer who was involved in the temperance movement. [1] She was a founding member of the British Women's Temperance Association (BWTA) in 1876, [2] and served as its first president. [3]
Lees also edited Truth-Seeker from 1844 to 1850, the Teetotal Topic, in 1847, and the Temperance Spectator, in 1859. [2] He was a founding member of the United Kingdom Alliance in 1863. [2] Lees was a vegetarian and occasionally lectured on vegetarianism. In 1857, he won a Vegetarian Society essay competition which was republished in 1884. [2]
Catechism on Alcohol and Tobacco, published in 1885, was printed in several foreign languages, and the National Temperance Society sold over 300,000 copies of it. The Youth's Temperance Banner and The Water Lily, monthly periodicals issued by the National Temperance Society for use in Sunday schools, were at times edited by her.
Malins' 1895 poem, "The ambulance down in the Valley", is a possible reference to the "Upstream Parable", sometimes called the "River Story" which has been attributed in the 1930s to political activist Saul Alinksy, medical sociologist Irving Zola, and John McKinlay in 1975 … (Eliot, L.B. 3 April 2020.
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Bloomer wrote that "the only way in which women can do anything effectually in this [temperance] cause is through the ballot-box," a position she called "a strong women's rights sentiment". [6] The Lily published articles not only on women's suffrage but also on major social reform issues such as property rights, education, employment, dress ...