Tell Your Story to No One: ‘Re-Servicing’ Virtue in the Magdalen House

Thearticle probes the amphibious character of the ‘slippery’ servant-maid who methodically migrates between servitude and prostitution. It focuses in particular on the revision of the servant-maid/prostitute in the 1759 novel The Histories of Some of the Penitents in the Magdalen House, published co...

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Main Author: Sylvia Greenup
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2015-03-01
Series:Journal of Early Modern Studies
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Online Access:https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-jems/article/view/7043