Pearson's London was what we now call central London, and much of it was slums. Today most of us wouldn't say no to a pied à terre in Clerkenwell, but in 1850 it was a slum. Drury Lane? A slum. Seven Dials and Covent Garden? Holborn and Finsbury? Slums.

They must learn to be sexually arousing and must evaluate their worth compared to the sexual market value of other women.

the Ruhr industrial complex

She was in her bare feet and Mr Keogh noticed that they were big and tendony.