2006-12-21 14:12:40 · 12 answers · asked by J.Welkin 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
How melodramatic do you want it? She could be a young orphan who is sent to stay with distant relatives from a good family. Very naive, she's seduced by the son of the family and becomes pregnant. Either in fear, she runs away and has to fend for herself, losing the baby on the way; or she could be thrown out onto the streets. Anyway, on the streets, she could fall into the hands of a deceptively kind man/woman who forces her into prostitution in return for food and lodgings. (She doesn't have to be pregnant - she might just fear she is. That would be shameful and scandalous in Victorian times.)
Good luck!
2006-12-21 15:21:34 · answer #1 · answered by George 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Isn't prostitution tragic all by itself? In fact, so is the Victorian Era, period.
2006-12-21 20:45:41 · answer #2 · answered by zozo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She is a girl from a reputable family, set to marry a wonderful young man when her character is smeared by her callous rape at the hands of her step-father. The marriage is called off by the prospective groom's family, despite the young man still loving her, and the girl travels across England where her reputation is unknown in order to find work as a governess. However, the father of the house learns of her past and he and his cronies gang rape her. She leaves and has to turn to a life on the streets.
2006-12-23 16:15:04 · answer #3 · answered by dandy_lion26 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She was a rich heiress headed to marry a prince in another country when her maid threw her into the ocean so she could pretend to be the heiress. The real heiress swims to a small island where she is found by a drunk with a boat. She manages to convince him to give her a lift and she goes back to her own home. But her family don't recognize her so she must become a prostitute to survive.
2006-12-21 14:20:09 · answer #4 · answered by peaceluvnchick 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2016-12-18 17:30:02 · answer #5 · answered by karg 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Orphan, works in a grand house as parlor or scullery maid (think Upstairs-Downstairs) gets raped by rich man of the house, gets in trouble, pregnant, forced out in the street, to survive, prostitutes herself (think Mary Reilly)
2006-12-22 03:36:15 · answer #6 · answered by lovesherchina 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A girl elopes without her parents permission. They disown her. The cad she elopes with does not marry her, but just "honeymoons" with her until his selfish desires are sated. He leaves her. She is unwelcome in her parents home and must become a prostitute to survive.
2006-12-21 15:18:19 · answer #7 · answered by caring_funlovingteacher 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Girl is sold by her father to become a "pleasure slave" and falls in love with her master, but she must become a prostitute because he leaves her and she's trying to find him but needs to make money.
2006-12-21 14:34:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A girl falls madly in love with her lover, but it is forbidden love. Her parents find out and are enraged. They take her far away one night and strand her in a faraway land that is unfamilar to her. She goes from place to place trying to find work and information to return to her lover's arms and runs into the wrong people. They rape her and tell her nothing, then force her to become a prositute for their own selfish gain.
2006-12-21 14:26:07 · answer #9 · answered by Alex[Insomniac] 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Family is poor and she must become one to survive and help family out. They are all saddened by this but somehow she gets paid decently so they accept it.
2006-12-24 08:53:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋