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'Sex workers in nineteenth-century Melbourne were judged morally corrupt by the respectable world around them. But theirs was a thriving trade, with links to the police and political leaders of the day, and the leading brothels were usually managed by women.
'While today a popular bar and a city lane are famously named after Madame Brussels, the identities of the other ‘flash madams’, the ‘dressed girls’ who worked for them and the hundreds of women who solicited on the streets of the Little Lon district of Melbourne are not remembered.
'Who were they? What did their daily lives look like? What became of them? Drawing on the findings of recent archaeological excavations, rare archival material and family records, historian Barbara Minchinton brings the fascinating world of Little Lon to life.''
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Flies in Their Wily Webs : Melbourne’s Buoyant Colonial Red District
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 438 2021; (p. 60)
— Review of The Women of Little Lon 2021 single work biography'We routinely think of the past as a subtext of the present, but in The Women of Little Lon Barbara Minchinton flips this around. She aims not only to ‘dismantle the myths and counter misinformation and deliberate distortions’ about sex workers in nineteenth-century Melbourne, but – in an explicitly #MeToo context – to ‘reduce the stigma attached to the work today’ while heightening our ‘understanding of and respect for the lives of all sex workers’.' (Introduction)
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Delectable Details on Display
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 21 August 2021; (p. 17)
— Review of The Women of Little Lon 2021 single work biography
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Delectable Details on Display
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 21 August 2021; (p. 17)
— Review of The Women of Little Lon 2021 single work biography -
Flies in Their Wily Webs : Melbourne’s Buoyant Colonial Red District
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 438 2021; (p. 60)
— Review of The Women of Little Lon 2021 single work biography'We routinely think of the past as a subtext of the present, but in The Women of Little Lon Barbara Minchinton flips this around. She aims not only to ‘dismantle the myths and counter misinformation and deliberate distortions’ about sex workers in nineteenth-century Melbourne, but – in an explicitly #MeToo context – to ‘reduce the stigma attached to the work today’ while heightening our ‘understanding of and respect for the lives of all sex workers’.' (Introduction)
