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Ladies Home Mission Society, 192

"Lallah Rook," 261

Landlords, of prostitution, 133 -34. See also Delaplaine, John F.; Livingston, John R.

Lane, Catherine, 45

Langdon, Mrs., 301

Laraty, Mr. (Jewett's client), 13

Laudanum, 248

Lavoie, Felicite (alias Catherine Stone), 286

Law enforcers. See Police/law enforcers Laws. See Abortion' laws against; Adultery, and laws against; Disorderly house/ persons: law; Immigrants/immigration: laws related to; Landlords, of prostitution; Seduction laws; Tenement house laws; Vagrancy law

Lawson, M., 274

LeCompt (LeCount), Miss, 302

Lee, Colonel, 43

Legal system, male dominance of, 2 , 113 , 139 -40

Legislature, New York, 138 , 141 -42, 281

Lenox, James, 178

LeRoy, Bob, 282

LeRoy, Jake, 201 , 282 , 387 n.58, 395 n.92

Lesbianism, 306 -8

Leslie, Ann, 105

Leve, Jane, 312

Lewis, Elizabeth, 105 , 310

Lewis, Maria (Maggie), 310

Lewis, Mary, 180

Licensing of prostitutes. See Prostitution: licensing and regulation of; St. Louis, regulation of prostitution in

Livingston, John R., 129 , 292

Lloyd, Ann, 241

Lockwood, Charles, 178 , 180

Logue, Eliza, 170

Lord, Jane (Mrs. Jacob Lord), 314

Low, Cornelius, 178

Lowndes, Justice, 211

Ludlow, Eliza, 168

Lynch, Judge, 121

Lyon, Margaret and Sarah, 310

Lyon, Mrs., 185