- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; Reprint edition (25 Mar 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140173269
- ISBN-13: 978-0140173260
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.7 x 1.7 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 378,527 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This book overturns the prejudices of Victorian London's middle class moralists and reformers, who equated poverty with depravity, by presenting and analyzing an extraordinary range of hitherto unpublished firsthand documents: love letters and testimonies from working class women who faced pregnancy alone, and from their suitors, relatives and employers. These unique and moving writings provide the fullest and most accurate picture to date of love and sex among the poor in Victorian London.
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Interesting look at the other side of the coin
13 Nov 2002
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Much has been said of the strumpets of yor, of wenches and bawdy house queens of the score...(from The Wicker Man, the Landlord's Daughter).
Actually, much more have been written about the uptight, repressed era of Victoria's ton, were passions simmered just under the surface. This book goes into an area not mined, the views of sexuality and desire in the working-class men and women of 19th Century London. The Writer relied on first hand documents uncovered in the now-closed Archives of a London foundling hospital, love letters and first-hand testimonies in court cases, to details the views on rape, flirtation and prostitution to which many women of the period in London were driven to survive, and the inevitability of being pregnant and alone in this grinding poverty.
The book contains cynicism, cruelty, yet is balanced with tenderness, dignity and generosity giving us a fascinating look behind the notions of Victoria's reign.
A MUST for anyone interested in the period. Especially recommended for writers of Victorian romance.
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