Peg Plunkett - Memoirs of a Whore

Zusatztext Endlessly fascinating! informative and insightful Informationen zum Autor Dr. Julie Peakman is a well-known for her work as a historian in eighteenth-century culture, sexuality (all eras) and pornography. She is Honorary Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London, and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She is a frequent contributor to journals, magazines and television documentaries for BBC, Channel 4 and the Biography Channel. Her first book Mighty Lewd Books: The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth-Century England (Palgrave 2003) was met with acclaim, her second book Lascivious Bodies: A Sexual History of the Eighteenth Century (Atlantic Books, 2004) was a more light-hearted romp through the eighteenth-century sexual underworld. Her last book was The Pleasure's All Mine. A History of Perverse Sex (Reaktion, 2013). Klappentext The extraordinary life of the Georgian era's most famous whore The extraordinary life of the Georgian era's most famous whore Zusammenfassung The extraordinary life of the Georgian era's most famous whore

Product details

• Authors: Julie Peakman, Peakman Julie
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.06.2016
• EAN: 9781782067764
• ISBN: 978-1-78206-776-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Biography: historical, political and military, C 1700 To C 1800