Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction Bernard Shaw: A Brief Chronology A Note on British Currency A Note on the Text
Mrs Warren’s Profession
Appendix A: From Shaw’s Prefaces to Plays Unpleasant and Mrs Warren’s Profession
- From 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 Reviews
- St 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 England
- From The Unknown Mayhew: Selections from the Morning Chronicle, 1849-50
- From James Miller, Prostitution Considered in Relation to Cause and Cure (1859)
- From Parliamentary Papers, 1865, XX, Children’s Employment Commission
- From 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: Incest
- From the Old Testament: Leviticus 18. 6-18
- From 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 Stage
- From 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 Cambridge
- Petitions and Resolutions on Degrees for Women (1896-97)
- From the Senate Debate on Degrees for Women (March 1897)
- The May 1897 Riots
- An Undergraduate at Newnham College (1896-99)
Appendix H: The New Woman
- From 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)
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