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In Bed with the Georgians
In Bed with the Georgians: Sex, Scandal and Satire in the 18th Century | Mike Rendell
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In Bed with the Georgians provides a fascinating insight into life under the bed-clothes in Georgian England, where the Madams and pimps were able to thrive in the eighteenth century like never before. It looks at high-class seraglios as well as the brothels, jelly-houses and bagnios which flourished openly, especially in the area around Covent Garden. It looks at courtesans from the highest echelons of society, the kept women, the sex-workers in 'houses of pleasure', down through to the street walkers and common whores. It shows the way that the sex scene was portrayed in contemporary letters and press reports, and focuses on royal scandals, aristocratic shenanigans and immoral behaviour. The book looks at the role of Grub Street, the growth of celebrity status, and the way courtesans occupied a demi-monde of great popularity, with their enormous wealth and conspicuous spending. In particular it looks at the way that caricaturists, such as Gillray, Rowlandson, Newton, and Cruikshank, pilloried the rich and famous for their peccadilloes, satirizing their wild excesses, and by so doing helped inform the general public of what their 'social superiors' were getting up to. This book is lavishly illustrated in colour and contains a useful glossary of many aspects of the world of the sex trade in London two and a half centuries ago.
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LeahBergen
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Day 13: #Hysterics

“Masculina”: the deadly “blue balls” of Jane Austen‘s era. 🤣🤣

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Ruthiella 😂😂😂 2y
CrowCAH Lol glad I learned something today! But let me faint away at such an indecent topic! 2y
mabell 😳😳😳🤣🤣 2y
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LeahBergen
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Congratulations on the great big Litfluence, @Megabooks ! 😘😘

I would have to pick the tagged read as my favourite of the summer (thus far), just because of the glossary of “dirty” Georgian slang included at the back of the book.

I‘m off to fasten another button on my blouse or else I‘ll be showing off my ‘apple dumplin shop‘ and looking like a ‘bawdy basket‘. 😆😆

#25Etsy

SilversReviews Congrats!! 5y
Megabooks So #stacked!! Thanks for entering!! 5y
Centique This book sounds FABULOUS 🤩 5y
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Relaxing with a pint after touring No. 1 Royal Crescent, a Georgian townhouse in Bath. I picked up this saucy book in the gift shop. 😁

Cathythoughts 👍🏻♥️I love that word “ saucy “ ... I‘m always telling my youngest daughter she is saucy !😂because she is - can be brazen out (edited) 5y
rockpools Have a lovely time in Bath! 5y
Cathythoughts Have a lovely time 👍🏻 5y
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Reviewsbylola Love Bath! And that cover too! 5y
CarolynM Such a beautiful town. Enjoy! 5y
emilyhaldi Now you‘re in Bath?! Amazing! 🙌🏻 5y
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