'Entertaining, learned and instructive, this is a perfectly pitched little book that takes us deep into the seamy eighteenth-century world of the bawdyhouse, without ever losing either its lucidity or its levity.' --Dr Suzannah Lipscomb, author of 'The Visitor's Guide to Tudor England'. The business of sex was a significant aspect of urban culture in Georgian England, and a visible one. Despite the rise of the polite society of Jane Austen's novels, London by 1758 had long been known as a centre of vice and debauchery: in the shadows of the fashionable public parks and gardens, in alleyways along the banks of the Thames, even at church doors, there lurked a world of criminality and prostitution of which the bawdyhouse became one of the most potent symbols. This book explores what it was like to run, work in, and frequent these establishments, which ranged from filthy East End hovels to grand upmarket apartments, and through newspaper reports, criminal trials, political speeches and bawdy pamphlets and prints shows how they were perceived and how the era of the happy hooker came to an end.
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'Entertaining, learned and instructive, this is a perfectly pitched little book that takes us deep into the seamy eighteenth-century world of the bawdyhouse, without ever losing either its lucidity or its levity.' --Dr Suzannah Lipscomb, author of 'The Visitor's Guide to Tudor England'
'Takes in every aspect of the period's commercial exploitation of female flesh ... excellent.' --The Dabbler
'Takes in every aspect of the period's commercial exploitation of female flesh ... excellent.' --The Dabbler
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Emily Brand is a writer and historian with a special interest in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England. She has written widely on domestic and family life for a number of history and genealogy magazines and is also an author for the history society London Historians, of which she is an honorary member. She wrote 'Royal Weddings' for Shire.
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By Sarah
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A fascinating study of the sex industry in eighteenth century England, from the 'glamour' to the gutter.
Short, but perfectly written. There are plenty of wonderful contemporary images that bring the book and the content to life.
An excellent read.
Short, but perfectly written. There are plenty of wonderful contemporary images that bring the book and the content to life.
An excellent read.
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