Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: ‘The Great Social Evil’ – Representing the Victorian Prostitute
- 1 White-Washed Sepulchres and Wives of Englishmen: William Acton's Representation of English Prostitutes
- 2 From ‘Masses of Rottenness’ to the ‘Queen's Women’: The Report of the Royal Commission (1871)
- 3 Mothers, Sisters and Shameless Women: Josephine Butler and the Victorian Prostitute
- 4 Mercy and Grace: Wilkie Collins and The New Magdalen
- 5 My Secret Life and the Pornographic Representation of Prostitution
- Conclusion: Countering the Myth
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
Acknowledgements
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: ‘The Great Social Evil’ – Representing the Victorian Prostitute
- 1 White-Washed Sepulchres and Wives of Englishmen: William Acton's Representation of English Prostitutes
- 2 From ‘Masses of Rottenness’ to the ‘Queen's Women’: The Report of the Royal Commission (1871)
- 3 Mothers, Sisters and Shameless Women: Josephine Butler and the Victorian Prostitute
- 4 Mercy and Grace: Wilkie Collins and The New Magdalen
- 5 My Secret Life and the Pornographic Representation of Prostitution
- Conclusion: Countering the Myth
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
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- Chapter
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- The Prostitute's BodyRewriting Prostitution in Victorian Britain, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014