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London's sinful secret : the bawdy history and very public passions of London's Georgian Age
- Author
- Cruickshank, Dan.
- Title
- London's sinful secret : the bawdy history and very public passions of London's Georgian Age / Dan Cruickshank.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- 1st U.S. ed.
- Published
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2010.
- Description
- xv, 654 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map ; 25 cm.
- Other contributors
- Cruickshank, Dan. Secret history of Georgian London.
- Notes
- Originally published as: The secret history of Georgian London : how the wages of sin shaped the capital. London : RH Books, 2009. Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- 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
- 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.
- Kinsey subjects
- Prostitution history--England--London--18th century. Prostitutes--England--London--18th century. Sex in architecture. Sex ethics--England--London--18th century.
- ISBN
- 9780312658984 0312658982