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Mrs. Warren's profession

One of Bernard Shaw's early plays of social protest, Mrs Warren's Profession places the protagonist's decision to become a prostitute in the context of the appalling conditions for working class women in Victorian England.
eBook, English, ©2005
Broadview Press, Peterborough, Ont., ©2005
Drama
1 online resource (243 pages) : illustrations
9781551116273, 9781459304499, 1551116278, 1459304497
180772980
AcknowledgementsIntroductionBernard Shaw: A Brief ChronologyA Note on British CurrencyA Note on the TextMrs Warren’s ProfessionAppendix A: From Shaw’s Prefaces to Plays Unpleasant and Mrs Warren’s ProfessionFrom the Preface to Plays Unpleasant (1930)From the Preface to Mrs Warren’s Profession (1930)Appendix B: The Expurgated Text of Mrs Warren’s Profession (1898) Appendix C: Contemporary ReviewsSt James’s Gazette (7 January 1902)J.T. Grein, The Sunday Special (12 January 1902)New York Times (31 October 1905)New York Times (31 October 1905)Manitoba Free Press (1 May 1907)Glasgow News (11 April 1913)Birmingham Gazette (28 July 1925)The Times (29 September 1925)Appendix D: Prostitution in Victorian EnglandFrom The Unknown Mayhew: Selections from the Morning Chronicle, 1849-50From James Miller, Prostitution Considered in Relation to Cause and Cure (1859)From Parliamentary Papers, 1865, XX, Children’s Employment CommissionFrom William Acton, Prostitution Considered in its Moral, Social, and Sanitary Aspects (1870)From Alfred S. Dyer, The European Slave Trade in English Girls (1882)From An Act to Make Further Provision for the Protection of Women and Girls [The Criminal Law Amendment Act] (1890)From General [William] Booth, In Darkest England and the Way Out (1890)From Clementina Black, Married Women’s Work (1915)Appendix E: IncestFrom the Old Testament: Leviticus 18. 6-18From the House of Lords Debate on the Incest Bill (16 July 1903)From the House of Commons Debate on the Incest Bill (26 June 1908)From An Act to Provide for the Punishment of Incest (1908)Appendix F: Censorship of the StageFrom An Act for Regulating Theatres, (1843)A Memorandum from the Lord Chamberlain to the Examiner of Plays (1895)“The Censorship of Plays,” The Times (29 October 1907)From the Report from the Joint Select Committee of the House of Lords and the House of Commons (1909)Appendix G: Vivie Warren’s CambridgePetitions and Resolutions on Degrees for Women (1896-97)From the Senate Debate on Degrees for Women (March 1897)The May 1897 RiotsAn Undergraduate at Newnham College (1896-99)Appendix H: The New WomanFrom Grant Allen, “Plain Words on the Woman Question,” Fortnightly Review (October 1889)From Sarah Grand, “The New Aspect of the Woman Question,” North American Review (March 1894)From Alys W. Pearsall Smith, “A Reply from the Daughters,” Nineteenth Century (March 1894)Select Bibliography