Contents, "Dickens and Urania Cottage, the Home for Fallen Women"
Jane Rogers
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- Why were homes for fallen women thought necessary?
- What was 'Fallenness' and what was Dickens's interest?
- How widespread were concerns about prostitution?
- How did Dickens deal with prostitution in his novels? Little Em'ly in David Copperfield
- Martha Endell in David Copperfield
- Nancy and Bet in Oliver Twist
- What was the message about prostitution in Oliver Twist and David Copperfield
- Dickens and his involvement in Urania Cottage
- Felicia Skene, Josephine Butler and William Acton and their views on similar reformatories
- Dickens's thoughts on the success of Urania Cottage and those of the inmates themselves
- Dickens, Philanthropist or moralist?
- Bibliography
Last modified May 27, 2003