Everything about The Maiden Tribute Of Modern Babylon totally explained
The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon was a series of highly controversial newspaper articles on
child prostitution that appeared in the
Pall Mall Gazette in July 1885. Written by crusading editor
W.T. Stead, the series was a
tour de force of
Victorian journalism. With sensational crossheads, such as "The Violation of Virgins" and "Strapping Girls Down", the
Maiden Tribute threw respectable Victorians into a state of
moral panic, and achieved, as a consequence, the implementation of the
Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885, which raised the
age of consent for girls from 13 to 16. Stead and several of his accomplices were later brought to trial as a result of the unlawful investigative methods they used (see the
Eliza Armstrong Case) and Stead himself served three months in prison. Stead's reports were an early but potent example of a 'new journalism' which wasn't afraid of creating a 'news-event' rather than just plain reporting. According to Roland Pearsall "it was the death knell of responsible journalism"
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