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GUEST,bigJ Lyr Req: Bunch of Damned Whores (Ted Egan) (26) RE: Lyr Req: bunch of damned whores 11 May 05


See Ted's book "The Land Down Under" ISBN 0-9545726-0-2 where the words are on p37. He quotes Ann Summers' book "Damned Whores and God's Police" as "arguably the most important book about Australia"
From that book he says "From 1788 until the 1840's almost all women were categorized as whores or 'damned whores' as Lt. Ralph Clark called them.
Dr Summers attributed Clark's remarks to a sighting of the Lady Juliana, a ship of the Second Fleet which brought over 200 female convicts to Sydney on the 2nd of June 1790. Clark continually ranted about the actual or alleged morals of female convicts in his journal, which he dedicated to his beloved wife in England, Betsy Alicia. He neglected to record that a convict, Mary Branham, bore his illegitimate child on Norfolk Island.


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