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  • Fallen Women

    From the author of the bestselling 'The Workhouse Children'

    by Lindsey Hutchinson

    Since the death of her parents when she was just a girl, orphan Ann Felton has had to struggle to survive. The grimy and gruelling Black Country is no place for a girl all alone and Ann is relieved when she gets works at The Bell public house, and is befriended by the local ladies of the night.These bawdy, brave women take Ann under their wings, but with poverty gnawing hard at the people of ... Read more

    € 4,35 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fallen Women

    by Sue Welfare

    From the author of GUILTY CREATURES comes a novel of family life turned upside downKate’s got her life sorted out, with her own business, run from her trendy townhouse in London, where she’s lucky enough to have best friends in the same street, a workable marriage, two kids, the occasional visit home to her roots. But all this is changed by a phone call one night: her widowed mother has fallen ... Read more

    € 14,60

  • Fallen Women

    A Novel

    by Sandra Dallas

    From the ballrooms and mansions of Denver's newly wealthy, to the seamy life of desperate women, Fallen Women illuminates the darkest places of the human heart.It is the spring of 1885 and wealthy New York socialite Beret Osmundsen has been estranged from her younger sister, Lillie, for a year when she gets word from her aunt and uncle that Lillie has died suddenly in Denver. What they do not tell ... Read more

    € 7,84

  • Don't Tempt Me

    by Loretta Chase

    series The Fallen Women Series #1
    Spunky English girl overcomes impossible odds and outsmarts heathen villains.That's the headline when Zoe Lexham returns to England. After twelve years in the exotic east, she's shockingly adept in the sensual arts. She knows everything a young lady shouldn't and nothing she ought to know. She's a walking scandal, with no hope of a future . . . unless someone can civilize her.Lucien de Grey, the ... Read more

    € 4,35

  • Your Scandalous Ways

    by Loretta Chase

    series The Fallen Women Series #2
    James Cordier is all blue blood and entirely dangerous. He's a master of disguise, a brilliant thief, a first-class lover—all for King and Country—and, by gad, he's so weary of it. His last mission is to "acquire" a packet of incriminating letters from one notorious woman. Then he can return to London and meet sweet-natured heiresses—not adventuresses and fallen women.Francesca Bonnard has ... Read more

    € 4,35

  • Republic of Shame

    Stories from Ireland's Institutions for 'Fallen Women'

    by Caelainn Hogan

    'At least in The Handmaid's Tale they value babies, mostly. Not so in the true stories here' Margaret Atwood'[A] furious, necessary book' Sinéad GleesonUntil alarmingly recently, the Catholic Church, acting in concert with the Irish state, operated a network of institutions for the concealment, punishment and exploitation of 'fallen women'. In the Magdalene laundries, girls and women were ... Read more

    € 9,49

  • Unveiling Desire

    Fallen Women in Literature, Culture, and Films of the East

    by Devaleena Das and 17 more

    In Unveiling Desire, Devaleena Das and Colette Morrow show that the duality of the fallen/saved woman is as prevalent in Eastern culture as it is in the West, specifically in literature and films. Using examples from the Middle to Far East, including Iran, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Thailand, Japan, and China, this anthology challenges the fascination with Eastern women as passive, abject, or ... Read more

    € 26,15

  • Prostitution and Sex Work in Global Cinema

    New Takes on Fallen Women

    by Kate Taylor-Jones and 1 more

    series Global Cinema
    This volume brings together international scholars to engage in the question of how film has represented a figure that for many is simply labelled ‘prostitute’. The prostitute is one of the most enduring female figures. She has global historical resonance and stories, images and narratives surrounding her, and her experiences, circulate transnationally. As this book will explore, the broad term ... Read more

    € 88,28

  • Forgotten Men and Fallen Women

    The Cultural Politics of New Deal Narratives

    by Holly Allen

    During the Great Depression and into the war years, the Roosevelt administration sought to transform the political, institutional, and social contours of the United States. One result of the New Deal was the emergence and deployment of a novel set of narratives—reflected in social scientific case studies, government documents, and popular media—meant to reorient relationships among gender, race, ... Read more

    € 20,15

  • The Fallen Woman. Two Ideals of Women in Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'

    by Sarah Kunz

    Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1.0, , course: Gothic Fiction, language: English, abstract: In the novel entitled Dracula, written by Bram Stoker in 1897, the two female characters Lucy Westenra and Mina Harker both seem to represent the Victorian ideal of female virtue. However, as the narrative proceeds, vampirism, ... Read more

    € 2,99