Another reason it so shocked Victorian sensibilities was because he suggests that poor women turn to prostitution "to keep body and soul together."  He goes on, "Indeed, all attractive unpropertied women lose money by being infallibly virtuous or contracting marriages that are not more or less venal."  Well, Mrs Warren is just such a woman.  But the play is really about the relationship between Mrs Warren and her daughter, Vivie, whom she brought up, on the proceeds of her profession, to be 'respectable' and the effect on Vivie when she learns of the source of her virtuous upbringing.

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