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　　There has been a great deal written on the secret longings and

sexual hypocrisy of the Victorian era's upper crust, but almost

nothing has chronicled the erotic desires and sexuality of London's

working class. Now, in this painstakingly researched book, their

touching and emotional stories can be told.

Part 1 Labouring classes, depraved classes

the setting; a vast hothouse of sexual immorality - the signs of

immorality, use of the streets, places of amusement, living

conditions - one-room dwellings and sexual licence; characters in

the family drama, the head of the family, children, young people,

women; the natural history of transgressions - profligacy, the

reign of the impure, animality. Part 2 The foundling hospital. Part

3 Love and marriage

"My vile seducer has been the cause of four other young women's

ruin

casual loves and impossible romances - "female servants are far

from being a virtuous class

"nice life this, for a girl of three and twenty, my Kerristian

friends"; "home, sweet home"; temptations and precautions - "as I

was going to Chelsea one day, I met with a pretty girl on the way

...

courtship; parents and family, friends and workmates, employers, a

very discreet courtship, "there was no courtship or promise of

marriage"; "where they went to I never hear say ... but when she

returned, Mrs Gray said she'd very much rumpl'd her muslin ...";

sex before marriage, promises of marriage - "he promised me

marriage, they all do"; love nests, love traps, the question of

consent; words of love; "now lost to all, her friends, her virtue

fled ...

"he promised to marry her soon, but soon he forgot all about her

...

posting banns, living in sin, "before everything went wrong

abortion attempts, "I told him at which he seemed frightened

"he said he would see me through my trouble"; seduced and

abandoned, family and friends, "no sir, missus don't permit no

followers

"rules of sexual morality".

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There has been a great deal written on the secret longings and sexual hypocrisy of the Victorian era's upper crust, but almost nothing has chronicled the erotic desires and sexuality of London's working class. Now, in this painstakingly researched book, their touching and emotional stories can be told.