Memoirs of Mrs. Margaret Leeson
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Page : 276 pages
File Size : 16,33 MB
Release : 1797
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Page : 276 pages
File Size : 16,33 MB
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Author : Margaret Leeson
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Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,19 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Witty, unbuttoned and frank, and astonishingly detailed, these are the memoirs of Margaret Leeson (1727- 1797), Dublin's best-known and most stylish brothel keeper of the late eighteenth century. Unpublished since their day (when they sold quite well
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Page : 290 pages
File Size : 27,90 MB
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Author : Laura J. Rosenthal
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 39,28 MB
Release : 2015-03-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801454344
In Infamous Commerce, Laura J. Rosenthal uses literature to explore the meaning of prostitution from the Restoration through the eighteenth century, showing how both reformers and libertines constructed the modern meaning of sex work during this period. From Grub Street's lurid "whore biographies" to the period's most acclaimed novels, the prostitute was depicted as facing a choice between abject poverty and some form of sex work. Prostitution, in Rosenthal's view, confronted the core controversies of eighteenth-century capitalism: luxury, desire, global trade, commodification, social mobility, gender identity, imperialism, self-ownership, alienation, and even the nature of work itself. In the context of extensive research into printed accounts of both male and female prostitution—among them sermons, popular prostitute biographies, satire, pornography, brothel guides, reformist writing, and travel narratives—Rosenthal offers in-depth readings of Samuel Richardson's Clarissa and Pamela and the responses to the latter novel (including Eliza Haywood's Anti-Pamela), Bernard Mandeville's defenses of prostitution, Daniel Defoe's Roxana, Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, and travel journals about the voyages of Captain Cook to the South Seas. Throughout, Rosenthal considers representations of the prostitute's own sexuality (desire, revulsion, etc.) to be key parts of the changing meaning of "the oldest profession."
Author : Kirsten Pullen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 37,15 MB
Release : 2005-02-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521541022
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Author : Caroline Breashears
Publisher : Springer
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 18,10 MB
Release : 2017-02-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3319486551
This book contributes to the literary history of eighteenth-century women’s life writings, particularly those labeled “scandalous memoirs.” It examines how the evolution of this subgenre was shaped partially by several innovative memoirs that have received only modest critical attention. Breashears argues that Madame de La Touche’s Apologie and her friend Lady Vane’s Memoirs contributed to the crystallization of this sub-genre at mid-century, and that Lady Vane’s collaboration with Tobias Smollett in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle resulted in a brilliant experiment in the relationship between gender and genre. It demonstrates that the Memoirs of Catherine Jemmat incorporated influential new strategies for self-justification in response to changing kinship priorities, and that Margaret Coghlan’s Memoirs introduced revolutionary themes that created a hybrid: the political scandalous memoir. This book will therefore appeal to scholars interested in life writing, women’s history, genre theory, and eighteenth-century British literature.
Author : Mary O'Dowd
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 31,58 MB
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 331969278X
This book is centered on the history of the girl from the medieval period through to the early twenty-first century. Authored by an international team of scholars, the volume explores the transition from adolescent girlhood to young womanhood, the formation and education of girls in the home and in school, and paid work undertaken by girls in different parts of the world and at different times. It highlights the value of a comparative approach to the history of the girl, as the contributors point to shared attitudes to girlhood and the similarity of the experiences of girls in workplaces across the world. Contributions to the volume also emphasise the central role of girls in the global economy, from their participation in the textile industry in the eighteenth century, through to the migration of girls to urban centres in twentieth-century Africa and China.
Author : Lynda M. Thompson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 10,14 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780719055737
Thompson presents a re-appraisal of the 'scandalous memoirists' Costantia Phillips and Laetitia Pilkington, who feature with a cast of other 18th century apologists, and overturns scholarship's traditional discrediting of them.
Author : Ruth Perry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 24,71 MB
Release : 2004-08-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139454439
Ruth Perry describes the eighteenth-century transformation of the English family as a function of major social changes. She uses social history, literary analysis and anthropological kinship theory to examine texts by Austen, Richardson, Burney, and many others. This important study will be of interest to social and literary historians.
Author : Fergus Linnane
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 27,37 MB
Release : 2011-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0752473387
At a time when there were almost no career opening for women, a group of intrepid and gifted females scaled the heights of what was literally a man's world - they became brothelkeepers, or 'bawds', Mother Clap - women bawds were often known as Mother - ran male brothels, or Molly Houses. Elizabeth Holland had an immense moated mansion built on Bankside and for 30 years entertained the aristocracy, including royalty. When troops attempted to stop her trade and eject her from the house, she and her girls drove them off. The Georgian bawd Charlotte Hayes held a 'Cyprian Fete' at which gentlemen "of the highest breeding" first watched athletic young men copulating with nubile whores and then joined in themselves. Fergus Linnane reveals the other side of London's years of pomp and splendour, painting a vivid picture of the bawds, their girls, and their clients. Madams is fresh and original, offering humour, insight, and a very candid view of the sexual behaviour of Londoners through the ages.