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• Prostitutes -- Drama -- Early works to 1800
• Prostitutes -- England -- Early works to 1800
• Prostitutes -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- France -- Paris -- Early works to 1800

• Police a etablir, sur le scandale de la trop grande publicité des femmes prostituées. (s.n., 1789) (page images at HathiTrust)
• De fide meretricum in suos amatores : quaestio minus principalis vrbanitatis et facetie causa, in fine quodlibeti Heydelbergen̄. determinata a magistro Jacobo Hartlieb Landoieñ. ; nouis quibusdã additionibus nup[er] illustrata. (s.n., 1502), by Jakob Hartlieb and Jakob Wimpheling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nobiltà donnesca ne'figlivoli (Appresso Giacomo Antonio Somascho, 1599), by Giovanni Antonio Massinoni and Giacomo Massinoni (page images at HathiTrust)
• A bavvd A vertuous bawd, a modest bawd: as shee deserves, reproove, or else applaud. Written by John Taylor. (Printed at London : [By Augustine Mathewes?] for Henry Gosson, 1635), by John Taylor (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Second part of The honest vvhore (London : Printed by Elizabeth All-de for Nathaniel Butter, an. Dom. 1630., 1630), by Thomas Dekker, Nathaniel Butter, and Elizabeth Allde (page images at HathiTrust)

• An auction of whores, or, The bawds bill of sale, for Bartholomew Fair. Held in the cloysters, near Smithfield. (London : Printed for N. H. over against the Eagle and Child, in St. Martin Le Grand, [1691]), by Michael Altham (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• An account of the rise, progress, and present state of the Magdalen Hospital, for the reception of penitent prostitutes : together with Dr. Dodd's sermons : to which are added, the advice to the Magdalens, with the psalms, hymns, prayers, rules, and list of subscribers. (Printed by W. Faden, for the Charity, and sold at the Hospital, St. George's-Fields, 1776), by William Dodd and William Faden (page images at HathiTrust)

• A new summons, to warn all bawds and whores, to the gossiping of the temple-twins (London : Printed for P. Smart, 1695) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Ordonnance de police, concernant les femmes de débauche : du six novembre mil sept cent soixante-dix-huit. (Chez P.G. Simon ..., 1778), by Paris (France), Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir, and Paris (France). Lieutenant général de police (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Chen hai miao pin (Shanghai liu yi shu ju, 1911), by Yan Chen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Qing lou yun yu (1914), by Mengzheng Zhang and Yuanliang Zhu (page images at HathiTrust)
• San shi liu chun xiao pu. (1928), by Huasheng Peng (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hun ru pian (Bei xin shu ju, 1927), by Hongyu Shen and Yuan Fan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le pornographe; ou, Idées d'un honnête homme sur un projet de règlement pour les prostituées : propre à prévenir les malheurs qu'occasionne le publicisme des femmes (Gay et Doucé, 1879), by Restif de La Bretonne and H. Mireur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les maisons closes au XVIIIe siècle ... Académies de filles et courtières d'amour, maisons clandestines, matrones, mères-abbesses, appareilleuses et proxénètes. Rapports de police, documents secrets, notes personnelles des tenancières. (H. Daragon, 1903), by Gaston Capon (page images at HathiTrust)
• La fille Élisa. (G. Charpentier, 1877), by Edmond de Goncourt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Weib als Verbrecherin und Prostituirte; anthropologische Studien, gegründet auf eine Darstellung der Biologie und Psychologie des normalen Weibes (Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei, 1894), by Cesare Lombroso and Guglielmo Ferrero (page images at HathiTrust)
• Polovoi rynok i polovyi a otnosheni i a (Si e ver, 1908., 1978), by A I Mati u shenskii (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der sittliche Zustand von Berlin nach Aufhebung der geduldeten Prostitution des weiblichen Geschlechts : ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Gegenwart unterstützt durch die vollständigen und freimüthigen Biographieen der bekanntesten prostituirten Frauenzimmer in Berlin (Kriminalistik Verlag, 1981), by Carl Röhrmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• The waifs of womanhood, or, A plea for unfortunates. (John Shepherd, 1854), by George Hume (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guía de cortesanas en Madrid y provincias (Biblioteca Hispania, 1921), by Ana Diaz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Second part of The honest vvhore (London : Printed by Elizabeth All-de for Nathaniel Butter, an. Dom. 1630., 1630), by Thomas Dekker, Nathaniel Butter, and Elizabeth Allde (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Devil and the strumpet, or, The old bawd tormented (London : Printed for E.B., [1700?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The bawds tryal and execution also, a short account of her whole life & travels / written by Misomastropus. (London : Printed for L.C., MDCLXXIX [1679]), by Misomastropus (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The soul traders (F. & C. Palmer, 1910), by Elizabeth Goodnow (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hun ru pian (Bei xin shu ju, 1927), by Hongyu Shen and Yuan Fan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Qing ni lian hua ji (Zi qiang shu ju, 1910), by Dingzuo Mei and Zi qiang shu ju (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hui tu qing ni lian hua ji (Zi qiang shu ju, 1910), by Dingzuo Mei (page images at HathiTrust)

• Blah ([publisher not identified], 1900) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Thomas Dekker: Edited, with an introduction and notes by Ernest Rhys. Unexpurgated Edition, by Thomas Dekker, ed. by Ernest Rhys (Gutenberg ebook)

• The town-misses declaration and apology : or, An answer to the character of a town-misse. (Printed for J. F., 1675) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Character of a town-misse (London : Printed for Rowland Reynolds ..., 1680) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Fanny Hill, by John Cleland (multiple editions)
• L'Oeuvre de John Cleland: Mémoires de Fanny Hill, Femme De Plaisir, Avec des Documents Sur La Vie à Londres au XVIIIe Siècle (in French; Paris: Bibliothèque des curieux, 1910), by John Cleland, contrib. by Guillaume Apollinaire, illust. by William Hogarth (page images at Gallica)
• Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise (2 volumes; New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1917), by David Graham Phillips
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Indiana
  • both volumes (but no illustrations): Gutenberg text
• The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe (multiple editions)
• Maggie, a Girl of the Streets, by Stephen Crane (Gutenberg text)
• Susan Lenox : her fall and rise : with a portrait of the author. (D. Appleton and Company, 1917), by David Graham Phillips, Robert W. Chambers, and D. Appleton and Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• One hundred dollar misunderstanding : a novel (Grove Press, 1962), by Robert Gover and W. B. Dunn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The diary of a lost one (The Hudson press, 1908), by Margarete Böhme (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cranky Ann, the street-walker : a story of Chicago in chunks (s.n., 1878), by Shang Andrews and Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana (University of Illinois at Chicago) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Out of the depths: the story of a woman's life. (W.A. Townsend, 1860), by W.A. Townsend & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Resurrection, a novel (Grosset & Dunlap, 1899), by Leo Tolstoy and Louise Maude (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Fanny Hill. (I. Liseux, 1888), by John Cleland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rahab, by Waldo David Frank (Gutenberg ebook)
• Pimeyttä (in Finnish), by Leonid Andreyev, trans. by Sandra Laihia (Gutenberg ebook)
• The house of bondage, by Reginald Wright Kauffman (Gutenberg ebook)
• Yhteiskunnan hylkäämä: Langenneen naisen päiväkirja (in Finnish), by Margarete Böhme, trans. by Salu Latvala (Gutenberg ebook)
• Un amour de Swann (in French), by Marcel Proust (Gutenberg ebook)
• L'oeuvre de John Cleland: Mémoires de Fanny Hill, femme de plaisir: Introduction, essai bibliographique par Guillaume Apollinaire (in French), by John Cleland, contrib. by Guillaume Apollinaire, illust. by William Hogarth (Gutenberg ebook)
• Pyhä sontiainen: Kuvaus porttola-elämästä (in Finnish), by Else Jerusalem, trans. by Elvira Willman (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Rat-Pit, by Patrick MacGill (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les petites alliées (in French), by Claude Farrère (Gutenberg ebook)
• Hookers, by Richard F. Mann (Gutenberg ebook)
• She Knew He Was Coming, by Kris Neville, illust. by Ed Emshwiller (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Bed of Roses, by Walter Lionel George (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Life and Amours of the Beautiful, Gay and Dashing Kate Percival: The Belle of the Delaware, by Kate Percival (Gutenberg ebook)

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