466 Pages
by
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 4: The Uncommon Adventures of Miss Kitty F****r (1759) Kitty’s Stream (1759) Horse and Away to St. James’s Park (1760) A Sketch of the Present Times, and the Time to Come (1762) Genuine Memoirs of the Late Celebrated Jane D*******s (1761) [Edward Thompson], The Meretriciad (1761) Of All the Girls in our Town (1760) Genuine Memoirs of the Celebrated Miss Nancy D---n (1760) Nancy Dawson’s Jests (1761) Kitty’s Attalantis (1766)
Biography
Julie Peakman
