Prostitutes,Magdalenes and Wayward Girls: Dangerous Sexualities of Working Class Women in Victorian Scotland

Let anyone walk certain streets of London, Glasgow or Edinburgh, of a night, and without troubling his head with statistics, his eyes and ears will tell him at once what a multitudinous amazonian army the devil keeps in constant field service, for advancing his own ends. The very stones seem alive with lust, and the very atmosphere is tainted.¹