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HelpI'm beginning to get the feeling ...
in reply to a message by Caroline
That in Ye Olden Days, Caroline wasn't considered a prim or prudish name in certain circles.
Ever read "The Crimson Petal and the White?" It's about a prostitue in London in the 1880's named Sugar who hooks a rich benefactor. She has a friend who is described this way: "Like many common women, especially prostitutes, her name is Caroline."
And I just recently read "Bowery Girls" about two street girls in NYC in the same time frame. Molly is a skilled pickpocket and Annabelle is a prostitute. They start working in a settlement and the lady who runs it uses the name, I forget, Elizabeth? Anyway, she reveals to them that she was once a street child and her name was Caroline, a name she changed when she set out to become respectable.
Ever read "The Crimson Petal and the White?" It's about a prostitue in London in the 1880's named Sugar who hooks a rich benefactor. She has a friend who is described this way: "Like many common women, especially prostitutes, her name is Caroline."
And I just recently read "Bowery Girls" about two street girls in NYC in the same time frame. Molly is a skilled pickpocket and Annabelle is a prostitute. They start working in a settlement and the lady who runs it uses the name, I forget, Elizabeth? Anyway, she reveals to them that she was once a street child and her name was Caroline, a name she changed when she set out to become respectable.
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