In 1885 Victorian England was scandalized by a court case that lifted the veil on prostitution and the sex trade. In the Old Bailey dock stood W.T. Stead, the editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, which had recently published a series of articles on the sex trade; Rebecca Jarrett, a reformed brothel keeper; and the second-in-command of The Salvation Army, Bramwell Booth. They were accused of abducting a thirteen-year-old girl, Eliza Armstrong, apparently buying her for the purpose of prostitution. In fact they had done this as a sensational expos
Product Details
ARMSTRONG GIRL
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Product Weight: 0.65 lbs
Author: Le Feuvre, Cathy
Publication Date: 2015-06-19
Language: English
Publisher: LION BOOKS
Dewey Decimal Classification: 362.76
Number of Units in Package: 1
ISBN: 9780745956992