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Nursing
Nursing was Laura Chant’s first major career. She worked in the London Hospital but was dismissed when she married Thomas Chant as it was against their rules. She was also an assistant manager of a private lunatic asylum. On 8 April 1897 Chant and 6 other English Nurses went to Crete to give aid and supplies during the Greco-Turkish War. She received the “Red Cross of Greece” from the Royal family of Greece because of these efforts. Sentence about Hamadian Massacres.

The Empire Theater
One of the most prominent causes Chant was involved in was her protest of the Empire Theater of Varieties in Leicester Square. Chant shared in her pamphlet Why We Attacked the Empire that she was astonished by the immorality taking place in this theater during their performances. She went to visit the theater and observed many women who came to the promenade (an open space for people to walk around by still view the performance) to prostitute. She also believed that the clothing and the themes in these performances were immoral.

Chant attended the October 10, 1894 licensing meeting of the London County Council for the renewal of the Empire Theater and explained the immorality occurring in the theater. She gave a long speech detailing her grievances before the final decision by the committee was made. The license was renewed on October 26, 1894 but only if the promenade in the theater would be taken away and that no intoxicating drinks would be sold in the auditorium. Screens were placed around the promenade in the theater but were eventually pulled down by protestors.

Her work to reform the theater was a catalyst to future discussions on the injustices in the music halls. Chant’s reform efforts are considered one of the major factors that preceded the Music Hall Strike of 1907 in London. During this strike, theater workers protested the lack of pay to match the time demands of increasing working hours.

Organizations

 * International Council of Women (1888) Chant traveled to the United States to represent England in this women’s rights council. During the convention, Susan B. Anthony said in her opening remarks to the council that she admired Chant’s poem in Verona and Other Poems titled “England to America.”
 * Social Purity Alliance
 * Founding member of the National Vigilance Association which focused enforcement of the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885 which outlawed brothels and prostitution. She was the editor their journal The Vigilance Record which was published by the NVA.
 * Vice-president of the Peace Society
 * Chant was a founding member of the Women Guardians Society.
 * Ladies National Association
 * Women’s Liberal Federation
 * British Women’s Temperance Association
 * Women's Liberal Federation

Public Speaker and Author
Chant traveled around The United Kingdom, Canada and The United States of America and many other countries to  give speeches about temperance and other moral causes. She was known for making her audience laugh or be brought tears with her moving words about the various topics she spoke about.

She spoke about temperance to the Unitarian Church Temperance Society in Boston, United States on May 30, 1890 in a speech titled “How I Became a Total Abstainer.” She spoke about how alcohol poisons the brain and “as humanity advances in culture and development, the need of brain-power is greater.”

Chant was also known for her speeches as a nondenominational Christian preacher.

In 1893 Chant addressed the 1893 Parliament of the World's Religions, held in Chicago in conjunction with the Columbian Exposition. Her subject was Duty of God to Man Inquired. Her speech was titled, “The Real Religion of Today.” In this sermon she shared the importance of appreciating and respecting the many religions that were created to worship God.

SENTANCE ABOUT THE SONGS FOR KIDS