Packet 6: Bonus 9

Stephen Marcus’s The Other Victorians catalogs the 19th century obsession with controlling this profession, whose holders were stereotyped as “fallen women.” For 10 points each:
[10e] The Contagious Diseases Acts enabled violent treatment of women with what job, who were also targeted by Jack the Ripper?
ANSWER: prostitute [or sex worker; accept street walker]
[10h] Henry Spencer Ashbee may be the pseudonymous author, Walter, of this unique primary source on London’s brothels. This extremely long and repetitive memoir documents sexual escapades in the Victorian underworld.
ANSWER: My Secret Life
[10m] This founder of a society for the “Reclamation of Fallen Women” spent much of his time wandering London, “rescuing” prostitutes. This politician was known as G.O.M.—either “Grand Old Man” or “God’s Only Mistake.”
ANSWER: William Gladstone [or William Ewart Gladstone]
<HA, European History> | NAFTA-Packet-6

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