Prostitution in Victorian England

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General

• Dickens and Urania Cottage, the Home for Fallen Women
• How widespread were concerns about prostitution?
• Early and Mid-Victorian Attitudes towards Prostitution
• Punch on "the Great Social Evil" (1857)
• The Great Social Evil: Acton, “The Harlot’s House,” and Prostitutes in Victorian London
• The Salvation Army and Rehabilitation of Prostitutes
• Wilde’s Prostitutes
• Prostitution in Victorian Hastings
• Contagious Diseases Acts, 1864, 1866, 1869
• Selected Bibliography

Prostitution in Victorian Art

• Fallen Women in Victorian Art
• Augustus Egg, Past and Present
• W. H. Hunt's Awakening Conscience
• D. G. Rossetti's Found

Prostitution in Victorian Literature

• Thomas Hardy's "The Ruined Maid" (discussion questions)
• D. G. Rossetti's "Jenny"
• Oscar Wilde's "The Harlot's House" — text of the poem and links to discussions

Related Material

• Contraception in Victorian Britain: A Bibliography of Secondary Materials

Related Web Resources

• The Fallen Woman in Fiction and Legislation

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Last modified 10 October 2012