During the Victorian Era, prostitution was seen with a disapproving eye, but sadly, prostitution was a supplemental form of income for many working-class girls. Bernard Shaw's play Mrs. Warren's Profession (1894), is considered by most to illustrate Mrs. Warren - the protagonist who values traditional thought - to be more conventional than her independence-seeking daughter Vivie Warren. The conventional thought and behavior of the early nineteenth century is present in Mrs. Warren's character, an individual that …showed first 75 words of 1666 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1666 total…Company, 2000. 1724-1728. Abrams M.H, ed. The "Woman Question": The Victorian Debate about Gender. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2000. 1719-1721.<Tab/> Nightingale Florence, From Cassandra. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Gen. Ed M.H. Abrams. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2000.1730-1734 Shaw, G.B. Mrs. Warren's Profession. Class handout. Advance Placement English IV. Bowie High School. Spring Semester 2005.