A Woman of ‘Ill Fame’: Dorcas Carr
Dorcas Carr and her colleagues introduced me to the women defined as prostitutes in Victorian Swansea. She will feature in one of the dramatised accounts in my new book. In 1888, Dorcas Carr was described as ‘a woman of ill fame’ by The Cambrian newspaper. In a time when it was thought that a woman’s … More A Woman of ‘Ill Fame’: Dorcas Carr