General
- Dickens and Urania Cottage, the Home for Fallen Women
- How widespread were concerns about prostitution?
- Early and Mid-Victorian Attitudes towards Prostitution
- Punch on "the Great Social Evil" (1857)
- The Great Social Evil: Acton, “The Harlot’s House,” and Prostitutes in Victorian London
- Wilde’s Prostitutes
- Prostitution in Victorian Hastings
- Contagious Diseases Acts, 1864, 1866, 1869
- Selected Bibliography
Prostitution in Victorian Art
- Fallen Women in Victorian Art
- Augustus Egg, Past and Present
- W. H. Hunt's Awakening Conscience
- D. G. Rossetti's Found
Prostitution in Victorian Literature
- Thomas Hardy's "The Ruined Maid" (discussion questions)
- D. G. Rossetti's "Jenny"
- Oscar Wilde's "The Harlot's House" — text of the poem and links to discussions
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Last modified 19 May 2010