Encyclopedias: Spartacus Educational: The Emancipation of Women: Catherine Booth

Description: Abstract - Born in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, in 1829. At the age of fourteen she developed spinal curvature and four years later, incipient tuberculosis. It was while she was ill in bed that she began writing articles for magazines warning of the dangers of drinking alcohol. In 1864 she and William Booth began in London's East End the Christian Mission which later developed into the Salvation Army. She died of cancer in October 1890.