Sex and the sisterhood: how prostitution worked for women in 19th-century Melbourne
- Written by Sarah Hayes, Research Fellow in Archaeology and History, La Trobe University
Little Lonsdale Street in the 1870s: a number of brothels were located in the area known as 'Little Lon'.State Library of New South Wales.
Sex work was one of the major ways poor women could earn a reasonable income in the 19th century. Especially unmarried women with babies. But we don’t hear people say “my great-great-grandmother was...
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