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Item Details
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THE CASE OF THE GBP5 VIRGIN
THE TRUE STORY OF A VICTORIAN SCANDAL |
| By: |
Gavin Weightman |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£9.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0956246222 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780956246226 |
| Publisher: |
BACKSTORY |
| Pub. date: |
6 April, 2013 |
| Pages: |
180 |
| Description: |
In 1885, W. T. Stead published an account of a girl of thirteen being sold by her mother to a brothel where her virginity would be highly prized. The story of the GBP5 virgin was a sensation, one of the greatest scandals of the Victorian era. But soon the story began to unravel... |
| Synopsis: |
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 GBP5 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). |
| Illustrations: |
black & white illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
backstory |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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