London's sinful secret : the bawdy history and very public passions of London's Georgian Age /
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
2010, c2009.
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| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
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Table of 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
- 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.