Private Vices-Public Virtues: Bawdrey in London from Elizabethan Times to the Regency,9780709058229

Private Vices-Public Virtues: Bawdrey in London from Elizabethan Times to the Regency

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ISBN13: 9780709058229
ISBN10: 0709058225
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-01-01
Publisher(s): TRAFALGAR SQUARE
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Summary

This book examines the way in which the earthy 'licensed stewes' of the Tudors were civilized and transformed into the Temples of Venus of the Regency, luxurious houses catering for every fantasy of the male haut ton.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
7(2)
Introduction 9(6)
1 'Elizabeth was King: Now is James Queen'
15(10)
2 A Chaste King and the Rollicking Roundheads
25(12)
3 The Haunts of Proletarian Bawdry
37(5)
4 A Merrie Monarch, Scandalous and Poor
42(4)
5 Panders to the Public
46(9)
6 Of Manners and Morals
55(3)
7 Concerning Pimps and Ruffians
58(5)
8 Priscilla Fotheringham's Chuck Office
63(7)
9 Damaris Page: 'The Great Bawd of the Seamen'
70(7)
10 Elizabeth Cresswell's Saga
77(17)
11 From the Monastick Bigot to Phlegmatick William
94(9)
12 The 'Pious' Mother: Elizabeth Whyburn
103(3)
13 Jolly Sarah Lodge
106(3)
14 The 'Vicious' Mother: Elizabeth Needham
109(9)
15 'Good People, Ve Haf Come Only For Your Goods!'
118(4)
16 Covent Garden: The Grand Seraglio of the Nation
122(7)
17 Charming Betsy Careless and Mother Jane Douglas, the 'Empress of Covent Garden'
129(4)
18 The Shakespeare's Head and Harris's Lists
133(10)
19 The Great Bawds
143(24)
20 The King's Place Nunneries
167(15)
21 The Nasty Nurseries of Naughtiness
182(7)
Bibliography 189(4)
Index 193

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