Anthony Rhys
Notorious: Cardiff. Victorian and Edwardian social, sexwork and criminal history.
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Friday, 7 June 2019
The Short Life of Dolly Kelly
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This is Dorothy Kelly, known to her friends as Dolly. She is 23 in this photograph. It is in the same style as small passport sized photo...
Monday, 6 August 2018
The Twelve Day Death of Eliza Lewis
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This one is perhaps one of the darkest stories I have come across in my research and it involved two Charlotte Street women. First we have...
Friday, 3 November 2017
The Quiet Brothel: Mary Ann Wright
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Mrs Wright's brothel in Red, Custom House in Blue, Golden Cross in Yellow My book Notorious covers the life stories of thirty peo...
Sunday, 20 August 2017
Mary No-Nose: Cardiff Prostitute Nicknames
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Cranky & Bristol Ann have a fight in 1841. Nicknames were common throughout Wales as lots of people had the same first names or sur...
Wednesday, 26 July 2017
'Swaggering Gait': Pimps of Victorian Cardiff
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'Has a swaggering gait, blotched face and dimpled chin' so reads the description of Lemuel Anderson, a bully of Charlott...
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