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Women for a price
Description

A rare direct reference to prostitution on the gold fields, Lord Robert Cecil’s anecdote about a digger paying for female companionship is often quoted.

Published Source
Scott, Ernest (ed.), Lord Robert Cecil’s gold fields diary, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1935. [ Details... ]

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    Keesing, Nancy (ed.), Gold fever : the Australian goldfields 1851 to the 1890s, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1967. [ Details... ]

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  • Scott, Ernest (ed.), Lord Robert Cecil’s gold fields diary, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1935. [ Details... ]