The Great Social Evil

This painting by John Leech portrays the imagery of Bella being called gay due to her being a prostitute. During the 19th century, the term gay was not used to specify sexuality, but to show the imagery on prostitution and during the era of the "fallen woman". I chose this image to depict that in fact reading Browning's Porphyria's Lover that she was not inducing a gayfest of homosexuality but Porphyria was into prostitution. 

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