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Bezig met laden... Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies: Sex in the City in Georgian Britaindoor Hallie Rubenhold (Redacteur)
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"If you ever wondered what Jane Austen's Mr Darcy and his 'fellows' got up to on their numerous trips to London, here is the book they would certainly have carried around ... HARRIS'S LIST OF COVENT GARDEN LADIES was a bestseller of the Eighteenth Century, shifting 250,000 copoies in an age before mass consumerism. An annual 'guide book', and published at Christmas time, it detailed the names, attributes and 'specialities' of the capital's prostitutes. During its heyday (1759 -95) HARRIS'S LIST was the essential accessory for any serious gentleman of pleasure. Hallie Rubenhold has collected the funniest, rudest and most bizarre entries penned by Jack Harris, Pimp-General-of-all-England' into this mischievous little book." Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The frequent mention of birch wood for spanking is amusing, and on particular description of a Sex Workers services towards the end is well worth the potter through the earlier pages. If the oldest 'business' in the world tickles your curiosity, I would say it is a fine petite edition to perhaps more extensive descriptions of working in the Sex Industry. As I said before, I sometimes am somewhat questionable about the validity of such edited curios simply because I fancy having a bit more premise behind what I am about to read especially if penned by numerous or dubious authors, I like a bit of foreword to lead me into the merit of the text rather then descriptive tattle before I nurture the neatly bound eccentric artefact - but this can only encourage one to dig a bit deeper into the history of our sexual anthropological selves. ( )