SECRET HISTORY OF GEORGIAN LONDON (PB)

Georgian London evokes images of elegant buildings and fine art. It was also a city where prostitution was rife, houses of ill repute widespread, and many tens of thousands of people dependent in some way or other on the wages of sin. This book compellingly shows how the sex industry came to affect almost every aspect of life and culture in the capital, as well as the very varied attitudes of contemporaries - those who sympathised, those who indulged, and those who condemned.