A Congratulatory Epistle from a Reformed Rake, to John F------G, Esq; Upon the New Scheme of Reclaiming Prostitutes

A Congratulatory Epistle from a Reformed Rake, to John F------G, Esq; Upon the New Scheme of Reclaiming Prostitutes
Author: Reformed Rake
Publisher:
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2019-08-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780461204490

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Queen of the Courtesans

Queen of the Courtesans
Author: Barbara White
Publisher: The History Press
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2014-06-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0752493884

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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.

Spaces of Modernity

Spaces of Modernity
Author: Miles Ogborn
Publisher: Guilford Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1998-07-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781572303652

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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.

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Author: Ann Lewis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317322878

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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.

Shifting the Boundaries

Shifting the Boundaries
Author: Dario Castiglione
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780859894449

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"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.