THE ATHENAEUMMrs. Warren’s ProfessionGeorge Bernard Shaw
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Mrs. Warren’s Profession
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textA clever young Cambridge graduate discovers how her mother paid for her education: by running brothels across Europe. Shaw wrote it in 1893 and the Lord Chamberlain banned it, so for decades London could see it only in private performances. In New York in 1905 the police arrested the cast after the first night.
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- Reading time
- About 2 hr 20 min
- Where to find it
- The Unwelcome Spines, beyond the Restricted Catalogue
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #1097. In the public domain in the United States.