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The Secret History of Georgian London - How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital (Paperback)
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The Secret History of Georgian London - How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital (Paperback)
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Georgian London evokes images of elegant buildings and fine art,
but it was also a city where prostitution was rife, houses of ill
repute widespread, and many tens of thousands of people dependent
in some way or other on the wages of sin. The sex industry was, in
fact, a very powerful force indeed, and in The Secret History of
Georgian London, Dan Cruickshank compellingly shows how it came to
affect almost every aspect of life and culture in the capital.
Examining the nature of the sex trade, he offers a tantalising
insight into the impact of prostitution to give us vivid portraits
of some of the women who became involved in its world. And he
discusses the very varied attitudes of contemporaries - those who
sympathised, those who indulged, and those who condemned. As he
powerfully argues, these women, and many thousands like them, not
only shaped eighteenth-century London, they also helped determine
its future development.
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