Title Poverty and prostitution : a study of Victorian prostitutes in York / Frances Finnegan

Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1979

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W'PONDS	306.740942 Fin		AVAILABLE

Description x, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents Machine derived contents note: List of illustrations; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Houses and haunts; 3. The prostitutes and brothel-keepers; 4. The clients; 5. Drink, destitution and disease; 6. Rescue and reform; Conclusion; Notes; bibliography; Index Analysis North Yorkshire York Women Prostitution 1837-1887 Notes Includes index Bibliography Bibliography: pages [226]-228 Subject Poverty -- England -- History. Prostitutes -- England -- York -- Case studies. Prostitutes -- England -- York. Prostitution -- England -- York -- History. Social classes -- England -- York. Poverty -- history. Sex Work -- history. SUBJECT York (England) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80034915 -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850 England. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004739 LC no. 78068123 ISBN 0521224470

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