please empty your brain below
eh hem! Please use the right terms. A prositute's client is referred to as a punter - a "gentleman" is almost the exact opposite.

B | 08.09.13 - 9:59 a.m. | #

...true, but a 'punter' can still be a "gentleman" as a prostitute can be a "lady".

E | 08.09.13 - 11:54 a.m. | #

Just as her Murder site has been lost so has her Grave. See http://www.casebook.org/dissertations/rn_graves.html

Fat_Boy_Pete | 08.09.13 - 6:27 p.m. | #

And the term gentleman can be used ironically, particularly as in a Victorian context when people normally perceived as gentlemen (a rather Victorian concept, in fact) were more than likely to be prostitutes' clients.

There would be a lot of very dull reads - and things that would never get read - if writers were not allowed some artistic licence.

Sarah | Homepage | 09.09.13 - 8:44 a.m. | #

> "cat's meat"

This doesn't mean what I think it does, does it? Were people really that hungry?

Simon | 09.09.13 - 2:03 p.m. | #

"This doesn't mean what I think it does, does it? Were people really that hungry?"
No, cat's meat = meat for cats (before the advent of modern tinned/dry pet food), e.g. Matthew the cat's meat man was a friend of that great animal-lover Dr Dolittle in Hugh Lofting's series of books, which was where I first encountered the term as a child.

TAS | 09.09.13 - 8:32 p.m. | #

Cat's meat would almost certainly have been horsemeat.

Great Aunt Annie | 09.09.13 - 9:03 p.m. | #











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