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The Case of the £5 Virgin
Gavin Weightman
其他書名
The True Story of a Victorian Scandal
出版
backstory
, 2013
主題
Family & Relationships / Parenting / Motherhood
History / Modern / 19th Century
Social Science / Sexual Abuse & Harassment
Social Science / Human Sexuality
True Crime / General
ISBN
0956246222
9780956246226
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=d5BdmwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
In 1885 the editor of the Pall Mall Gazette published an account of a girl of thirteen being sold by her mother to a brothel, where her virginity would be highly prized. The editor was W T Stead, and his audacious scoop was telegraphed around the world. What became know as the story of the £5 virgin - the price that Stead claimed had been paid for the girl - was a sensation, one of the greatest scandals of the Victorian era. But was the story a 'put up job' as the playwright George Bernard Shaw judged it? With meticulous detective work Gavin Weightman has pieced together the true story of how the W T Stead, hero of the moral purity campaigners, fell victim to his own salacious imagination and wound up in the dock at the Old Bailey. At the heart of the story is an innocent cockney girl who later found immortality as the model for Eliza Doolittle in Shaw's most popular play, Pygmalion (My Fair Lady).