Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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5 July 1757: The London Lock Asylum (a home for reformed...
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5 July 1757
The LondonLock Asylum
(a home for reformed prostitutes recently cured of venereal disease) admitted its first inmates.
Merians, Linda E. “The London Lock Hospital and the Lock Asylum for Women”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 128-45.