INTRODUCTION AND CLASSIFICATION. BY HENRY MAYHEW 1
WORKERS AND NON-WORKERS 2 Classification of ditto 11
THOSE WHO WILL WORK 12 Enrichers 13 Auxiliaries 16 Benefactors 19 Servitors 20
THOSE WHO CANNOT WORK 22 Those who are provided for 22 Those who are unprovided for 22
THOSE WHO WILL NOT WORK 23 Vagrants or Tramps 23 Professional Beggars 23 Cheats and their Dependants 24 Thieves and their Dependants 25 Prostitutes and their Dependants 27
THOSE THAT NEED NOT WORK 27 Those who derive their Income from Rent 27 Those who derive their Income from Dividends 27 Those who derive their Income from Yearly Stipends 27 Those who derive their Income from obsolete or nominal Offices 27 Those who derive their Income from Trades in which they do not appear 27 Those who derive their Income by favour from others 27 Those who derive their support from the head of the family 27
THE NON-WORKERS. BY HENRY MAYHEW 28
PROSTITUTES.
THE PROSTITUTE CLASS GENERALLY. BY HENRY MAYHEW AND BRACEBRIDGE HEMYNG 35
PROSTITUTION IN ANCIENT STATES 37 The Jews, &c. 39 Ancient Egypt 43 Ancient Greece 45 Ancient Rome 49 The Anglo-Saxons 34
PROSTITUTION AMONG THE BARBAROUS NATIONS 58 African Nations 58 Australia 67 New Zealand 71 Islands of the Pacific 76 North American Indians 84 South American Indians 90 Cities of South America 93 West Indies 94 Java 96 Sumatra 99 Borneo 103
PROSTITUTION AMONG THE SEMI-CIVILIZED NATIONS 104 Celebes 107 Persia 108 The Affghans 111 Kashmir 115 India 117 Ceylon 125 China 129 Japan 136 The ultra-Gangetic Nations 139 Egypt 141 Northern Africa 149 Arabia, Syria, and Asia Minor 151 Turkey 155 Circassia 158 The Tartar Races 160
PROSTITUTION AMONG THE MIXED NORTHERN NATIONS 163 Russia 165 Siberia 167 Iceland and Greenland 172 Lapland and Sweden 174 Norway 177 Denmark 179
PROSTITUTION IN CIVILIZED STATES 181 Spain 191 Amsterdam 195 Belgium 195 Hamburg 196 Prussia--Germany 198 Berlin 198 Austria 200 Modern Rome 201 Turin 203 Berne 204 Paris 205
PROSTITUTION IN LONDON. BY BRACEBRIDGE HEMYNG 210
GENERAL REMARKS 210
SECLUSIVES, OR THOSE THAT LIVE IN PRIVATE HOUSES AND APARTMENTS 215
THE HAYMARKET 217
DEGREE OF EDUCATION AMONG PROSTITUTES 218
BOARD LODGERS 220 Autobiographies 220
THOSE WHO LIVE IN LOW LODGING HOUSES 223 Swindling Sall 223 Lushing Loo 224
SAILORS’ WOMEN 226 Visit to Ratcliff Highway 228 Visit to Bluegate Fields, &c. 231
SOLDIERS’ WOMEN 233 Visit to Knightsbridge 235
THIEVES’ WOMEN 236 Visit to Drury Lane, &c. 236
PARK WOMEN 242 Examples 242
THE DEPENDANTS OF PROSTITUTES 246 Bawds 246 Followers of Dress Lodgers 247 Keepers of Accommodation Houses 249 Procuresses, Pimps, and Panders 250 Fancy Men 252 Bullies 253
CLANDESTINE PROSTITUTES Female Operatives 255 Maid Servants 257 Ladies of Intrigue and Houses of Assignation 258
COHABITANT PROSTITUTES 259 Narrative of a Gay Woman 260
CRIMINAL RETURNS 263
TRAFFIC IN FOREIGN WOMEN 269
THIEVES AND SWINDLERS.--BY JOHN BINNY.