Gender matters and George William MacArthur Reynolds (1814-79)

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Political themes and contexts

• “The Queen was the husband, and the Prince the wife” — Reynolds makes Queen Victoria a character in his novel
• The Many Careers of Ellen Monroe

Prostitutes and kept women

• Aristocratic Morals
• The Marquis of Holmesford’s Harem
• Prostituting girls ten and twelve years old
• “The picture is, alas! too true” — Reynolds on the lives of young girls in London slums

Gendered beauty

• Examples of female beauty in The Mysteries of London

Predatory men

• The death of a voluptuary — The Marquis of Holmesford expires on a “naked, heaving bosom”
• George Montague Greenwood, swindler, seducer, rapist, and all-around villain

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