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The women of Little Lon : sex workers in nineteenth-century Melbourne / Barbara Minchinton.

The women of Little Lon : sex workers in nineteenth-century Melbourne / Barbara Minchinton.
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ISBN 9781760642419
176064241X
Author Minchinton, Barbara (author)
Title The women of Little Lon : sex workers in nineteenth-century Melbourne / Barbara Minchinton.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Carlton, Vic. : La Trobe University Press, [2021]
©2021.
Description 294 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm.
Note "A vivid account of a remarkable chapter in Melbourne's history"--Cover.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary A vivid account of a remarkable but little-known chapter in Melbourne's history. Sex workers in nineteenth-century Melbourne were judged morally corrupt by the respectable world around them. But theirs was a thriving trade, with links to the police and political leaders of the day, and the leading brothels were usually managed by women. While today a city lane is famously named after Madame Brussels, the identities of the other 'flash madams', the 'dressed girls' who worked for them and the hundreds of women who solicited on the streets of the Little Lon district of Melbourne are not remembered. Who were they? What did their daily lives look like? What became of them?
Subjects Prostitutes -- Australia
Prostitutes -- Victoria -- History
Prostitution -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- History
Sex workers -- Australia
Sex workers -- Victoria -- History
Sex workers -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- History
Victoria -- Melbourne
Melbourne (Vic.) -- History -- 19th century
Call number 2021.232
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A00947512 2021.232
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