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Book Queen of the Courtesans

Download or read book Queen of the Courtesans written by Barbara White and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fanny Murray (1729-1778) was a famous Georgian beauty and courtesan, desired throughout England and often to be found pressed to a gentleman’s heart in the form of a printed disc secretly tucked into their pocket-watch. She rose from life in the ‘London stews’ to fame and fortune, through her career as a high-class courtesan. She was seduced and then abandoned, aged just 12, by Jack Spencer, grandson of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough (and related to the Althorp-based Spencers). Her luck turned when she caught the eye of the infamous Beau Nash, ‘King of Bath’. But it was her time in London that promoted her to national fame and notoriety. After ten years at the top, she was heavily in debt, but managed to secure an arranged marriage to a respectable man. The scandals of her past caught up with her as she was named in the national scandal surrounding Wilke’s pornography case at the High Court.

Book Spaces of Modernity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Miles Ogborn
  • Publisher : Guilford Press
  • Release : 1998-07-11
  • ISBN : 9781572303652
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Spaces of Modernity written by Miles Ogborn and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 1998-07-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the civility of Westminster's newly paved streets to the dangerous pleasures of Vauxhall Gardens and the grand designs of the Universal Register Office, this book examines the identities, practices, and power relations of the modern city as they emerged within and transformed the geographies of eighteenth-century London. Ogborn draws upon a wide variety of textual and visual sources to illuminate processes of commodification, individualization, state formation, and the transformation of the public sphere within the new spaces of the metropolis.

Book Prostitution and Eighteenth Century Culture

Download or read book Prostitution and Eighteenth Century Culture written by Ann Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighteenth century saw profound changes in the way prostitution was represented in literary and visual culture. This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways that the sex trade was represented in popular culture of the time, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations.

Book Shifting the Boundaries

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dario Castiglione
  • Publisher : University of Exeter Press
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780859894449
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Shifting the Boundaries written by Dario Castiglione and published by University of Exeter Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book mounts a challenge to the notion of a clear distinction between public and private and attempts to account for the mobility of the many boundaries between the two. The first essay introduces some of those problematic boundaries in the light of the influential studies of Habermas, Koselleck, Aries and Chartier, who together have helped shape our understanding of the formation of the modern public and private spheres. A number of essays deal with the nature of public opinion in relation to state control and with the role of the intelligentsia. Some investigate non-political forms of sociability and the creation of various kinds of publics within the cultural realm. Others scrutinize gender roles and the validity of the accepted correspondence of male/female to public/private in the light of women's use of the printed word.

Book Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum

Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Notes and Queries

Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Masculinity and Control

Download or read book Masculinity and Control written by Antony E. Simpson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Prostitution in Great Britain  1485 1901

Download or read book Prostitution in Great Britain 1485 1901 written by Stanley D. Nash and published by Rlpg/Galleys. This book was released on 1994 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bibliography featuring extensive analytical descriptions of 390 published primary and secondary sources directly related to prostitution in the British Isles from Tudor through Victorian times. The substantial (28p.) introduction provides an overview of the history of prostitution in Britain, as well as discussing the evolution of the various forms of writing on the subject. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Collected Works

Download or read book Collected Works written by Oliver Goldsmith and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Citizen of the World

Download or read book The Citizen of the World written by Oliver Goldsmith and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Register of Erotic Books  Vel  sub Haec Specie  Dubiorum

Download or read book Register of Erotic Books Vel sub Haec Specie Dubiorum written by Alfred Rose and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: