As well as featuring fallen women in his novels Oliver Twist and David Copperfield, Charles Dickens was a campaigner for social justice. He wrote a leaflet to persuade prostitutes to come to Urania Cottage, a kind of rehabilitation centre he founded with friend Angela Burdett-Coutts in 1846.
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FIVE VICTORIAN EROTIC CLASSICS
It was perfectly acceptable and expected for a Victorian man to
have sex with any woman as well as his wife, including prostitutes.
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Jar A woman who had sexual contact with anyone other than her к? husband was labelled ‘unclean’ and a ‘fallen woman’. She lost her reputation and her actions provided a valid excuse to be jo/ж; kicked out and divorced.