..all those who are squeamish, and all those who are prudish, and all those who prefer to live in a fool’s paradise of imaginary innocence and purity, selfishly oblivious to the horrible realities which torment those whose lives are passed in the London Inferno, will do well not to read the Pall Mall Gazette of Monday and the three following days..W. T. Stead, W.T. Stead – (The Pall Mall Gazette, July 4, 1885)
Published in the Pall Mall Gazette in July, 1885, “The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon” was W.T. Stead’s highly scandalous expose of child prostitution. A tour de force of late nineteenth century prostitution, it exposed in graphic detail the entrapment, abduction and “sale” of young under-privileged girls to London brothels. Written in successive installments, Stead’s “infernal narrative”, as he called it, revealed to a respectable readership a criminal underworld of stinking brothels, fiendish procuresses, drugs and padded chambers, where upper-class paedophiles could revel “in the cries of an immature child…” Read More
The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon
- Notice to our Readers: A Frank Warning (July 4, 1885)
- We bid you be of Hope (July 6, 1885)
- The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon I (July 6, 1885)
- The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon II (July 7, 1885)
- A Flame which shall never be Extinguished (July 8, 1885)
- The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon III (July 8, 1885)
- To Our Friends the Enemy (July 9, 1885)
- The Truth about our Secret Commission (July 9, 1885)
- The Siege of Northumberland Street (July 9, 1885)
- Of Good Cheer Indeed (July 10, 1885)
- The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon IV (July 10, 1885)
- To Our Censors (July 13, 1885)
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