good prostitutes quote

[Joe]

thanks for the help everyone.
Malcom, they are referring to prostitutes????
im sure i read one somewhere that said '[a load of examples and metaphors] ... but none was as bad as an east end prostitute' but ive looked and looked and cannot find anything.
Another question I have is, would anyone be able to help me out with details regarding the times, evening news, morning advertiser and echo as victorian papers. Just general info about them... working/middle class? which political stance(if any)? what they concentrated on mostly?

thanks again for all the help. really love the whole site it has been so helpful for me.

[Malcolm X]

… An evil plexus of slums hide human creeping things; where filthy men and women live on penn’orths of gin, where collars and clean shirts are decencies unknown, where every citizen wears a black eye, and none ever combs his hair

aah, Gin is the clue and the price of one penny, this comes from Georgian London and the era of the artist Hogarth

``drunk for one penny, dead drunk for 2 pennies, straw provided``... the era of the Demom Barber of Fleet st,

``easy shave for a penny, as good as you'll find any an' the best pies in the whole o' London``........great stuff!

[Sam Flynn]

Hi Joe,

I wouldn't limit yourself to quotes about prostitutes as such. Bear in mind that their squalor was the same as anybody else's, so just about any contemporary quote relating to the destitution of the East End slums in general would suit your purpose.

[Nurse Sarah]

I wouldnt know, but have you checked the Victorian London and Dissertations section in the contents? There maybe something about prostitution there...

[Joe]

no i mean full quotes... to sum up the problem with east end prostitutes...
for example, something along the lines of...

… An evil plexus of slums hide human creeping things; where filthy men and women live on penn’orths of gin, where collars and clean shirts are decencies unknown, where every citizen wears a black eye, and none ever combs his hair

but based on prostitutes rather than the east end slums...

[Nurse Sarah]

I know they were called 'unfortunates' or you could call them 'fallen angels'

[Joe]

hi,

im looking for 2 good contemporary quotes to describe the destitution of a Victorian East End prostitute. As close to 1880s would be great and also a citation for them.
Thank you very much
Joe x