This East End prostitute was a member of the proletariat of prostitution – part of the vast numbers of working-class women who plied their trade on the streets or in the pubs and music halls of working class districts of mid-Victorian Britain. In this brief autobiographical sketch, she demonstrates a fine gift for storytelling as well as a secular and materialist understanding of her situation worthy of Defoe. She defies the social and sexual stereotypes of fallen women that pervaded mid-Victorian literature. She was not an elegantly attired Haymarket streetwalker, one of those dressy “somebodies whom nobody knows,” “who elbow … wives and daughters in the parks and promenades and rendez-vous of fashion.”