Jonty Claypole

And there's so many.

Nobody could do anything about it.

And we start seeing this playing out in in art.

Charles Dickens, as we know, loves a prostitute.

He's the original creator of.

the tart with the heart in Nancy.

And actually, to Dickens' credit, despite those stereotypes, as we saw in our David Copperfield episode, he set up a home for homeless women in 1847, which he deliberately set up to be an alternative to the very grim

penitentiaries, as they were called, the religious penitentiaries that fallen women or prostitutes were encouraged to go into, where they had to live to a very harsh code of early mornings, cold baths, endless lecturing and moralising.

And Dickens wanted to set up a home which wouldn't have that element.

And that's what he did.

They were not moralised at the women in Dickens' home for homeless women.

They were encouraged to marry, to wear colourful, cheerful clothes, to build a new life for themselves.

And I know you're going to come to this, but his happy outcome was that they should all be sent to Australia where they could have new names and new lives.

And I know you're going to connect that.

The pre-Raths were also obsessed by the fallen woman, despite... They loved a fallen woman.

One of the most famous pre-Raphaelite paintings, a hideous painting called Awakened Conscience by Holman Hunt from 1853, is a painting of a fallen woman, a man's mistress, sitting in the household he set up for her.

And she's sitting on his lap.

And there's a birdcage in the background, which is a very clunky metaphor for her life as a caged bird.

And the light of God is streaming into the windows and she's rising up from this man's lap, right, because her conscience has awakened.

And actually, it just looks like he's doing something very dirty to her.