Come and see all that remains of Lady Purple, the famous prostitute and wonder of the East! A unique sensation. See how the unappeasable appetites of Lady Purple turned her at last into the very puppet you see before you, pulled only by the strings of lust. Come and see the very doll, the only surviving relic of the shameless Oriental Venus herself... The Loves of Lady Purple is a short story by the English writer Angela Carter and is included in the 1974 anthology Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces.