A house of correction to which women suspected of ‘walking with undergraduates’, i.e. prostitution, were committed under the Vice-Chancellor’s jurisdiction, which jurisdiction was abolished in 1894 following the notorious ‘Daisy Hopkins case’.
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Spinning House
A house of correction to which women suspected of ‘walking with undergraduates’, i.e. prostitution, were committed under the Vice-Chancellor’s jurisdiction, which jurisdiction was abolished in 1894 following the notorious ‘Daisy Hopkins case’.
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