Publisher's Synopsis
The Malthusian League was a British organisation which advocated the practice of contraception and education of the public about the importance of family planning. It was established in 1877 and was dissolved in 1927. The organisation was secular, utilitarian and individualistic, maintaining that it was concerned about the poverty of the British working class, and that over-population was the chief cause of poverty. The league was initially founded during the trial of Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh in July 1877 who were prosecuted for publishing Charles Knowlton's Fruits of Philosophy which explained various methods of birth control, becoming a permanent body to advocate the elimination of penalties for promoting birth control and further public education on the issue of contraception. This handbook was 'Designed to induce Married People to Limit their Families within their Means' and is reprinted from the fourth edition of 1898.
