A child for sale: the battle against the Victorial sex trade
by
Cathy Le Feuvre, Meryl Doney
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
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;...