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Routledge
Focuses on autobiographies and biographies of courtesans, directories of whores, erotic poems dedicated to harlots, jocular descriptions of prostitutes and jest books on strumpets. These provide sources for the study of sexuality, gender, women's studies and the literature and history of the eighteenth century.
Volume 2: A View of the Beau Monde (1731) Thomas Man, The Benefit of Procreation (1739) The Prostitutes of Quality (1757)
Biography
Julie Peakman