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Essays from our Editors

As much as our Boards love reviewing, revising, and designing others' papers, we also write our own essays, both inside and outside of class. For this reason, we have created Essays from our Editors, a collection of pieces from our student editors. We hope you enjoy perusing through this collection as much as we do.

A Revised Narrative of Objects: Sterling Library’s 1945 Gifts of Yale Association of Japan and Asakawa Kan’ichi’s Compromised Vision of an Asian Museum

Essays from our Editors

A Revised Narrative of Objects: Sterling Library’s 1945 Gifts of Yale Association of Japan and Asakawa Kan’ichi’s Compromised Vision of an Asian Museum

Written by Isabella Yang, Yale 21' Edited By Lica Porcile, Yale 21' Tucked in the corner of a mezzanine-level bookshelf in Sterling Library’s East Asia Reading Room is an aged book with dark covers; on its spine are printed the simple words “Gifts of Yale Association of

“In Search after Lewd women”: Prostitution, Womanhood and Morality in Early Modern London

Essays from our Editors

“In Search after Lewd women”: Prostitution, Womanhood and Morality in Early Modern London

Written By Marcus McKee, Yale 22' Edited By Natalie Simpson, Yale 23' Prostitution was abounding in Early Modern London, as poor ‘nightwalkers’ roamed the seedier neighborhoods and high-class courtesans entertained the upper nobility. Prostitution was not only the work of females, with various accounts of so-called “molly houses”