From the ballrooms and mansions of Denver's newly wealthy, to the seamy life of desperate women, Fallen Women illuminates the darkest places of the human heart. It is the spring of 1885 and wealthy New York socialite Beret Osmundsen has been estranged from her younger sister, Lillie, for a year when she gets word from her aunt and uncle that Lillie has died suddenly in Denver. What they do not tell her is that Lillie had become a prostitute and was brutally murdered in the brothel where she had been living. When Beret discovers the sordid truth of Lillie's death, she makes her way to Denver, determined to find her sister's murderer. Detective Mick McCauley may not want her involved in the case, but Beret is determined, and the investigation soon takes her from the dangerous, seedy underworld of Denver's tenderloin to the highest levels of Denver society. Along the way, Beret not only learns the depths of Lillie's depravity, but also exposes the sinister side of Gilded Age ambition in the process. Sandra Dallas once again delivers a page-turner filled with mystery, intrigue, and the kind of intricate detail that truly transports you to another time and place.
immortalised in the nineteenth century, never appeared to worry about the obscene jingles which were sung in the streets, even when his humanitarian activities with fallen women were misconstrued: Eight little whores, with no hope of ...
"An account of Charles Dickens' work with destitute girls and young women in mid-eighteenth century London. With support from the millionairess Angela Burdett Coutts, he established a 'safe' house for...
Examines how film censors and producers treated the "fallen woman" or "sex picture" subject.
Three Fallen Women
80 The reason Paul connects women to the fallen angels is to strengthen his argument “in favour of a hierarchic relationship between man and woman . . . out of fear for cosmic disorder . . . [since] in Paul's perception the great change ...
Fallen Women, Problem Girls is a social and cultural history of out-of-wedlock pregnancy in the United States from 1890 to 1945.
But Linda's fall was more than just her crimes. Living a double life, constantly reminded of her pain, Linda turned to drugs to conceal her struggle. Ultimately, Linda had nothing left--no business, no money, and no family.
Tom Winnifrith examines how the great nineteenth-century novelists managed to say something new and important about sexual behaviour in spite of rules which dictated that the recording of this behaviour should combine the utmost discretion ...
Fallen Women: A Sceptical Enquiry Into the Treatment of Prostitutes, Their Clients and Their Pimps, in Literature
James Cordier is all blue blood and entirely dangerous.