INDEX

abortion, 58, 126 Contagious Diseases Act(s), 9, 13, 14, 15,

Academy, 122
Acton, William, 13, 14, 19–41, 46, 49, 58,
67, 69, 75, 77, 80, 87, 97, 98, 113, 127,
137, 142, 145, 148, 149, 150, 151, 154
Functions and Disorders of the Reproduc-
tive Organs, 23, 31
Anderson, Amanda, 10–11, 12, 13, 49, 118
Ashbee, Henry Spencer, 130
Athenaeum, 175n17
Bell, Shannon, 11–12, 13, 22, 31, 37, 40, 45,
19, 21–6, 30, 34, 40, 41, 43, 44, 46, 47,
50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 59, 60, 62, 63, 65, 66,
67, 69, 70, 71, 72, 74–83, 85, 86, 87,
92, 94, 96, 97, 117, 103, 149, 151, 152,
159n74, 166n58, 185n33
see also repeal movement
Contemporary Review, 36, 90, 104, 105, 110,
177n82
contraception, 126
Corbin, Alain, 8–9, 11, 50
courtesans, 6, 121, 123, 126, 130, 137, 146

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70, 73 Cremorne, The, 130
Bernheimer, Charles, 8–9, 11, 13, 50 Criminal Law Amendment Act (1885), 98,
Bevan, William, 2–5, 36, 156n26 151
Boudoir, The, 130
Butler, Josephine, 13, 15, 61, 65, 67, 71–98, Daily Graphic, 121
108, 113, 115, 117, 127, 151, 152, 154, Daily News, 74, 84, 89
167n93, 168n94 Defoe, Daniel, 99, 101–2
Moll Flanders, 99, 102
Canadian Monthly, 110 Roxana, 102
Cleland, John, 102 desertion, 16, 33, 56, 103, 148
Fanny Hill, 102, 180n23 Dickens, Charles, 16, 102, 175n17
Collins, Wilkie, 13, 16, 99–123, 138, 145, David Copperfield, 175n17
151–2, 154 Oliver Twist, 102, 175n17
Armadale, 104 domesticity, 61, 69, 73, 76–7, 83, 85–8, 92,
Basil, 105–6 100, 111, 169n7
The Fallen Leaves, 104
Man and Wife, 106 Examiner, 47
The Moonstone, 104
The New Magdalen, 16, 99–123, 138 ‘fallen’ women, 2, 5, 8, 10, 13, 16, 36, 44, 48,
No Name, 106, 111, 177n82 49, 72, 74, 82, 85, 91, 97, 100, 107–8,
The Woman in White, 104 111, 113, 118, 120, 147, 148, 151, 154
‘common women’, 48, 49 in art, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9–10, 11, 13, 100
confession, 102, 105, 112, 113–16, 120, in literature, 2, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 101–4,
145, 152 107–8, 122
contagion, 17, 27, 33, 34, 35, 37, 40, 49, 55, in poetry, 10, 174n11
59, 67, 68, 69, 72, 88, 89, 90, 97, 101, femininity, 9, 31, 32, 33, 36, 37, 78, 79, 91,
103, 118, 119 100, 104, 108–11

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Foucault, Michel, 21, 159n74
free will, 116–7, 140
Gaskell, Elizabeth, 16, 102–4, 107, 123
‘Lizzie Leigh’, 104, 123, 175n22
Mary Barton, 102–4, 107, 123, 175n17
Ruth, 103–4, 107, 175n22, 176n41
Gilfoyle, Timothy, 8, 17
Greg, W. R., 7, 21, 153
Grey, Maria, 93
Haymarket, 6, 29, 140
Hemyng, Bracebridge, 148–50
heredity, 103
Hugo, Victor, 93
idleness, 32, 57, 69
infanticide, 33
illegitimacy, 16, 33, 102, 106, 123, 177n82
Irish Monthly, 175n27
Karras, Ruth Mazo, 48–9, 158n69
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see also ‘common women’
Ladies National Association (LNA), 15, 61,
71–98, 115, 117, 151, 165n17
Lancet, 23, 33, 36, 38, 160n17
Leclerq, Carlotta, 121
liberalism, 73, 109, 170n8
libertinism, 45, 126, 130, 141, 153
lock hospitals, 2, 23, 46, 62, 67, 93, 167n91
Logan, William, 2, 4, 39, 159n4
‘Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon’, 74, 98
Marcus, Steven, 8, 128, 129, 131, 140
Martineau, Harriet, 84, 89
masculinity, 33, 86, 108, 129
maternity and motherhood, 72, 83, 85–8,
90, 92, 98, 114, 119, 151
Mayhew, Henry, 146, 148–50, 153
London Labour and the London Poor,
146, 148–50
Medical Enquirer, 23
melodrama, 25, 28, 74, 89
metalepsis, 118
miasma, 10, 34
midnight missions, 23
Miller, James, 38–9
Mort, Frank, 8, 73
My Secret Life, 13, 16, 123, 125–43, 149,
151, 152, 153, 165n25
Nead, Lynda, 1, 9–10, 12–13, 21, 34, 36, 40,
44, 101, 128, 153, 185n34
Pall Mall Gazette, 47, 65
Parent-Duchatalet, Alexandre, 4, 21, 23,
148, 155n6, 160n11, 160n18, 167n78,
180n28
De la prostitution dans la ville de Paris, 23
Pearl, The, 130
philanthropy, 87, 110, 117, 122, 154
police, 30, 45, 46, 47, 49, 50–6, 58, 59,
62–5, 68, 69, 75, 80, 81, 86, 94, 95, 98,
141, 146, 148
pornography, 13, 16–17, 96, 102, 125–43,
145, 152
prostitution
and agency, 9–12, 14, 35, 49, 57, 73, 77,
78, 83, 84, 88, 92, 94, 97, 98, 101,
112, 113, 116, 119, 126, 133, 135,
137, 138, 143, 146, 147, 150, 154,
158n69, 173n89
and brothels, 2, 3, 14, 46, 51, 56, 61, 62,
126, 174n11
causes of, 3–5, 14, 19, 20, 27, 31–3, 38,
39, 56–7, 75, 77, 94, 145
clandestine, 3, 26, 30, 34, 48, 52, 56,
61–4, 70, 137, 146, 149
classification/typology of, 3, 16, 26, 27,
30, 38, 40, 55–6, 97, 123
and clientele, 9, 126
definitions of, 3, 9, 10, 13–16, 20, 24,
25–6, 30, 32–3, 40, 44, 46, 48, 49,
50–4, 72, 77–83, 95, 100, 107,
125–6, 134, 135, 137, 142, 143, 145,
146, 148–9, 153, 154, 166n58
and domestic servants, 3, 78, 125, 130,
132, 135, 136, 147, 156n19, 156n27
and drunkenness, 5, 6, 9, 29, 55, 62, 70,
138, 158n53
economics of, 139–40
in France, 8, 9, 11, 27, 30, 50, 90, 165n36
geography of, 16, 126
‘kept women’, 3, 29, 30, 114, 134
and needleworkers, 3, 114
numbers/statistics of, 2, 3, 14, 19, 47, 62,
63, 64, 70
and race/imperialism, 27, 28, 34, 86, 152,
161n43
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and reform, 2, 6, 7, 17, 23, 37, 49, 57, 61,
67, 68, 69, 71, 72, 73, 79, 83, 85, 86,
87, 94, 96, 97, 99, 101, 102, 110, 111,
117–21, 130, 137, 152, 154
regulation of, 5, 7, 14, 19, 20–8, 30, 34,
36–41, 43, 44, 49, 50, 55, 57, 60,
65, 75, 81, 84, 86, 87, 89, 91, 92, 96,
97, 151, 160n17, 161n43, 172n82,
185n33
and rescue efforts, 1, 54, 60, 61, 76, 82,
85, 87, 95, 111, 117
streetwalkers, 3, 5, 30, 52, 55, 58, 61, 62,
67, 70, 89, 101, 115, 123, 133, 135,
146
and suicide, 5, 7, 35, 39, 96, 115–16, 117,
123, 149, 163n88, 164n114, 175n17
and victimhood, 6, 7, 9, 10, 14, 21, 33,
36, 43, 49, 69, 73, 74, 77, 82, 84, 85,
88, 92, 93, 94, 97, 101, 103, 105, 112,
113, 115, 117, 118, 119–20, 123,
127, 146, 152, 153, 154, 158n69,
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172n75
see also venereal disease
Quarterly Review, 104
redemption, 49, 69, 94, 102, 103, 106, 113,
115, 118
refuges, 46, 107, 110, 115, 116, 118, 119,
120, 122
religion, 21, 25, 41, 71, 73, 74, 78, 85, 87,
88, 91, 93, 95, 96, 98, 100, 102, 103, 109
Reynolds’s Newspaper, 65
repeal movement, 15, 43, 48, 51, 52, 57, 58,
60, 61, 64–8, 70–4, 76, 78, 79, 81, 82, 83,
85, 87, 89, 92, 94, 96, 97, 98, 138, 151
see also Contagious Diseases Act(s)
‘Report of the Royal Commission into the
Contagious Diseases Acts (1871)’, 13,
14–15, 26, 43–70, 75, 77, 80, 87, 97, 98,
113, 115, 134, 149, 151, 154
repressive hypothesis, 8, 126–7
Rescue Society, 54, 60, 76
Ricord, Phillippe, 23
Ripper murders, 98
Ryan, Michael, 2, 3, 4, 148, 156n26, 159n2
St James Gazette, 122
Saturday Review, 1, 6
201
seduction, 4, 6, 16, 32, 33, 35, 56, 57, 72,
84, 92, 93, 100, 111, 115, 120, 123, 147,
156n19, 176n41
sensation fiction, 16, 100, 104, 105, 106, 151
sexual double standard, 15, 21, 31, 40, 45,
51, 66, 77, 79, 83, 85, 95, 152, 154
Shaen, William, 52–3, 60
Shaw, George Bernard, 122
Mrs Warren’s Profession, 122, 174n11
Shield, 65, 66, 93, 168n114, 169n127
Simon, John, 23, 38
sisterhood, 72, 80, 85, 87, 88, 90, 91, 96, 97,
115, 151
slavery, 71, 84, 92, 93, 94
social determinism, 116, 119
social mobility, 6, 28, 114, 115, 123
spiritual womanhood, 73, 74, 76, 77, 85,
87, 97
suffrage (enfranchisement), 43, 72, 73, 83,
86, 95
syphilis, 27, 30, 33, 34, 35, 37, 67, 123,
167n78
see also venereal disease
Tait, William, 2–6, 39
Talbot, James, 2–6, 148, 156n31, 159n4,
162n59, 162n78
Temple Bar, 104
theatre, 112, 119, 121–2
The Times, 146, 148, 150, 152, 185n33
Tribune, 121
urban development, 9, 34, 119, 143, 152
vanity, 57, 69, 100, 102, 114, 123, 175n20
venereal disease, 2, 4, 5, 7, 15, 19, 20, 23, 24,
25, 33–7, 39, 41, 43–8, 56, 58–61, 63,
64, 66, 67, 70, 89, 90, 98, 126, 127, 133,
140, 151, 152
see also syphilis
virgin procurement, 126, 134, 137
Walkowitz, Judith, 8, 9, 10, 12, 21, 23, 40,
44–5, 52, 53, 74, 101
Wardlaw, Ralph, 2–5, 39, 162n59
Weeks, Jeffrey, 5
Westminster Review, 7, 21, 153, 185n33
‘whore story’, 99, 129–30
women’s movement, 15, 71, 95, 98