Jonty Claypole

And what's ridiculous is he doesn't know.

He's just sort of saying, she there is a prostitute.

She is a prostitute.

But there is a sense in the 1850s of this kind of zombie apocalypse happening.

Taking over London of people, of just women turning into prostitutes and running amok.

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.