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Private Vices, Public Virtues Bawdry in London from Elizabethan Times to the Regency by E J Burford and Joy Wotton |
Having just finished this book I was surprised to see the 'Harlots' TV show. Did they base it on this book? It certainly covers the same subject matter, if not the time span. The story of women trying to run their own businesses in an unsavoury field where the protection of powerful men was a necessity but never a guarantee and the foibles of the rich and famous were there to be sated and titillated.
(Clive Yelf - bwl 98 Autumn 2020 ) |
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