London's Sinful Secret - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook London's Sinful Secret write by Dan Cruickshank. This book was released on 2010-11-23. London's Sinful Secret available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Georgian London evokes images of elegant mannered buildings, but it was also a city where prostitution was rife and houses of ill repute widespread in a sex trade that employed thousands. In London's Sinful Secret, Dan Cruickshank explores this erotic Georgian underworld and shows how it affected almost every aspect of life and culture in the city from the smart new streets that sprang up in Marylebone, to the squalid alleys around Charing Cross to the coffee houses, where prostitutes plied their trade, to the work of artists such as William Hogarth and Joshua Reynolds. Cruickshank uses memoirs, newspaper accounts and court records to create a surprisingly bawdy portrait of London at its most-mannered and, for the first time, exposes its secret, sinful underside. "A lively work of social history, full of surprises and memorable characters." - Kirkus Reviews
Sinful Secrets
Sinful Secrets - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sinful Secrets write by Thea Devine. This book was released on 1996. Sinful Secrets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Victorian London is a place of propriety and promiscuity, virgins and voluptuaries, ladies and libertines. It is a time of backstairs liaisons, taboo passions, sex and secrets. Where every wanton pleasure can be had--for a price. Thea Devine "blends the heated sensuality of the finest Victorian erotic novels with the suspense and chilling aura of an Anne Rice tale. . . ".--"Romantic Times".
The Secret History of Georgian London
The Secret History of Georgian London - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Secret History of Georgian London write by Dan Cruickshank. This book was released on 2010-02-09. The Secret History of Georgian London available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of our leading historians describes how Georgian London was shaped by the sex industry
Two Sinful Secrets
Two Sinful Secrets - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Two Sinful Secrets write by Amanda McCabe. This book was released on . Two Sinful Secrets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A hundred years has passed since the bitter rivalry between the St. Claires and the Huntingtons began. But in London, the feud goes on . .. Lady Sophia Huntington isn't what she appears to be. Born into a noble family, the impulsive, wild-hearted beauty has fallen on difficult times. Banished from her home, Sophia dreams of the day she can finally win her father's forgiveness and return to London. Until the sudden appearance of a suitor from the scandalous St. Claire family threatens to reveal her darkest secrets . . . Dominic St. Claire vows to exact revenge upon the Huntingtons, who destroyed his family's fortune generations ago. His perfect target is the lovely but proud Lady Sophia. After using her to discover the Huntingtons' financial secrets, he will cause a great scandal by eloping-and then abandoning his bride. But his plot soon unravels when he finds his own heart ensnared-in a trap not of his own making.
Who Was William Hickey?
Who Was William Hickey? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Who Was William Hickey? write by James R. Farr. This book was released on 2019-09-19. Who Was William Hickey? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book analyzes an example of life-writing, an autobiography that was written in the early nineteenth century and will appeal to readers of many disciplines who are interested in understanding the interconnectedness of memory, textual narrative, and ideas of selfhood. Moreover, this book reasserts the importance of the individual in history. It explains how personal narratives reveal the individual as a purposeful social actor pursuing particular objectives, but framed by cultural and social contexts, in this case by eighteenth-century London and Imperial India. The author of this autobiography, William Hickey, projects a sense of self formed by a combination of an interiorized self-consciousness (an awareness of himself as an autonomous individual, although not one prone to deep self-reflection) and a socially-turned self-fashioning. Like so many autobiographers of his time, Hickey’s self is realized through the production of a narrative, his self fixed and defined through the act of writing. As he wrote his memoirs, Hickey was engaged in purposeful textual representation to satisfy his perceived sense of place in that culture (above all, as a gentleman) while tacitly reflecting the constraints of that culture imposed upon the form and content of the text.
