Originally posted by rjpalmer
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Cross-examined by Grandy. I am not married—I call myself Mrs. Brown, it looks better—I am German—Brown is a nickname, my real name is Minnie Groser—I have been in England seven years—I have been doing what your wife did for a living—I am an unfortunate; I did the same before I came to England—I am twenty-five years old
As I have studied Grande quite a bit and his history with West End brothels and Madams, bullies and bashers during turf wars relating to prostitution I am familiar with this case and I wouldn't call these women destitute. Perhaps these uses are just harder to root out. I just happen to know the case. I know Herlock posted a few examples also from the Old Bailey trials, it would be interesting to see if the term was only ever applied to those of the pauper class or was used in general terms, but it would take work to research the cases and the women it was applied to
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