Private vices - public virtues : bawdry in London from Elizabethan times to the Regency
Burford, E. J. (Ephraim John), 1905-1995
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This is a history of bawds and their various lodgings. It delineates the growth of a sub-culture shaped by the development of the professional pimp and procuress, and details the uneasy relationship of the court and the courtesans.
Main title:
Private vices - public virtues : bawdry in London from Elizabethan times to the Regency / E. J. Burford and Joy Wotton.
Imprint:
London : Robert Hale, 1995.
Collation:
199p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-192) and index.
ISBN:
9780709057246 (hbk)
Dewey class:
306.742094942.1
Local class:
LOC
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
357514