London Labour and the London Poor Volume IV
PROSTITUTES Part 47 Sailors' Women
Volume IV of Henry Mayhew's "A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those That Will Work, Those That Cannot Work, and Those That Will Not Work" examines the lives of prostitutes, swindlers, thieves, and beggars in 1862 London. Narrated by Peter Yearsley and Gillian…