Pouvoirs en conflit dans le personnage de Jane Shore dans The First and Second Parts of King Edward IV de Thomas Heywood by Frédérique Fouassier

“…She decides to use her status as a courtesan to help those in need. But there is no possibility for a Calvinist Mary-Magdalene, and Jane dies in utter destitution, stressing her didactic value to women in the audience.…”
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« Je ne suis pas homme de lettres ni littérateur de profession » : la question de l’auteur.e dans les autobiographies de courtisanes du XIXe siècle by Lola Gonzalez-Quijano

“…The portrait of the courtesan as a victim of (business)men is thus as much the reflection of female writing about prostitution, than that of a prostitution feeling among male writing proletariat at that time of press and edition development.…”
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