| Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
| Description |
xv, 654 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Originally published as: The secret history of Georgian London : how the wages of sin shaped the capital. London : RH Books, 2009. |
| Contents |
Sex in the city. "Satan's harvest": the nature of the sex industry ; "Ladies of the town": the business of prostitution ; Mother Clap and her boys: Molly houses and others ; Facts and fantasies: Moll King and Betsy Careless ; Winners and losers: Sally Salisbury and Lavinia Fenton ; "Measuring the maypole": the value of the sex industry -- Interlude: Elizabeth Canning: Abduction in prostitution -- The architecture of sin. Building on vice: the sex industry and the creation of Georgian London ; At home with Mrs. Cornelys: the world of the masquerade ; The rake's repose: coffee houses and brothels ; Grand seraglio to the nation: the Bagnio ; "The reception of the distressed": hospitals and workhouses Interlude: Colonel Francis Charteris -- The taste of sin. Vice takes centre stage: John Gay's The Beggar's Opera ; Muses, goddesses and painted ladies: art and Sir Joshua Reynolds ; The power of the past and the primitive: The new aesthetics of sex ; Visiting Venus' parlour: Sir Francis Dashwood and the Hell Fire Club |
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Interlude: The murder of Ann Ball -- Public and private views. "Children of larger growth": men's attitudes to women ; "Slaves of a casual lust": women's attitudes to the sex industry ; "Pretty doings of a Protestant nation": the campaign against prostitution -- Postlude: John Wilkes and An Essay on Woman. |
| Subject |
Prostitution -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century.
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Architecture, Georgian -- England -- London.
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City planning -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century.
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London (England) -- Moral conditions -- History -- 18th century.
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| Added Author |
Cruickshank, Dan.
Secret history of Georgian London.
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| ISBN |
9780312658984 |
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0312658982 |
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