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Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. 100pp. Pages clean and unmarked, title page is loose and pages are foxed around edges. Yellow card cover has light brown marks, spine faded to brown etc. Joan Jones spent her life savings producing and publishing this account of how, a sheltered vicar's daughter, she was raped by the medical officer she met during a wartime dance at the age of 18, and the effect it had on her life-due to ignorance, shame, bad advice and carelessness on the part of others, the rape was never reported. She contracted syphilis, and the disease was not properly treated for 29 years. She was unable to have children and her marriage failed as a result. She set down this record in the hope that other victims of rape should not suffer as she had done, and began a campaign to bring about a change in the law. and in many ways she succeeded. Lord Ted Willis paid tribute to her work in his opening speech in the House of Lords debate on the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill 1976.