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Ellice Hopkins
1836–1904
A vivid Victorian reform writer, she tackled the era’s sexual double standards and wrote with a mix of religious conviction, urgency, and social purpose. Her work offers a revealing window into the moral debates of nineteenth-century Britain.
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About the author
Born in Cambridge on October 30, 1836, Ellice Hopkins was an English social campaigner and author whose writing was closely tied to her reform work. She is remembered for speaking and publishing on questions of sexual morality, especially the unequal standards applied to men and women in Victorian society.
Hopkins helped organize practical social initiatives as well as write about them. She founded the Soldier's Institute at Portsmouth in 1874, promoted the Ladies' Association for the Care of Friendless Girls, and in 1883 co-founded the White Cross Army, a movement that urged men toward what the period called moral purity.
Alongside her activism, she wrote fiction and nonfiction, including the novel Rose Turquand. She died on August 21, 1904, and remains a notable figure for readers interested in the intersection of literature, religion, and social reform in nineteenth-century Britain.