Query: Novels about British prostitution or from 1722
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Guignol's Band
Doctor Slaughter
The Casual Vacancy
The Lover (Wilson novel)
Colonel Jack
A Journal of the Plague Year
Traité de l'harmonie réduite à ses principes naturels
Poor Cow (novel)
Fanny by Gaslight (novel)
The London Jilt
The Crimson Petal and the White
An Almond for a Parrot
Candy (Brooks novel)
Fanny Hill
Blow Your House Down
Moll Flanders
Evidence from documents: Guignol's Band: Set in the mid 1910s, the narrative revolves around Ferdinand, an invalided French World War I veteran who lives in exile in London, and follows his small businesses and interacting with prostitutes.
Doctor Slaughter: '''''Doctor Slaughter''''' is a 1984 novel by Paul Theroux. The story was also published that year in the book ''Half Moon Street'', alongside an unrelated story, ''Doctor DeMarr''.


The protagonist of ''Doctor Slaughter'', Lauren Slaughter, is a young woman living in near-poverty in London. She has a Ph.D. and works at a research institute. Having already traded sexual favours for help paying the plumber's bills, Lauren easily turns to prostitution to improve her finances. Mysteriously, she receives a video documentary about the Jasmine Escort Agency, a high-priced call-girl service. Feeling herself superior to the women featured on the video, Lauren signs on with the agency. Besides improving her finances, Lauren's second job brings her in contact with the affectionate Lord Bulbeck, a British politician and the mysterious Mr Van Arkady.
The Casual Vacancy: Major themes in the novel are class, politics, and social issues such as drugs, prostitution and rape.
The Lover (Wilson novel): '''''The Lover''''' is a 2004 crime fiction novel written by Laura Wilson and first published in the United Kingdom by Orion Publishing Group on 17 June 2004. A fictionalized account of the activities of a serial killer known as Blackout Ripper who began killing prostitutes in London during World War II, the novel follows the viewpoints of three different people, including the killer, as their individual lives begin to intersect.
Colonel Jack: '''''Colonel Jack''''' is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1722.
A Journal of the Plague Year: a book by Daniel Defoe, first published in March 1722.
Traité de l'harmonie réduite à ses principes naturels: from 1722: a music treatise written by Jean-Philippe Rameau. It was first published in Paris in 1722 by Jean-Baptiste-Christophe Ballard.
Novels: The Treatise is divided into four books:
Poor Cow (novel): Novels about British prostitution: She moves in with her Auntie Emm and manages to keep her head above water by working as a barmaid and occasional sex worker.
British: The novel is a study of a working-class girl from the East End of London,
Fanny by Gaslight (novel): a 1940 novel by the English author Michael Sadleir.


Sadleir's best-known work, it is a fictional exploration of prostitution in Victorian London.
The London Jilt: Novels about British prostitution: an English prose tale published anonymously in 1683, ostensibly relating the memoirs of a London courtesan
prostitution: Its introduction advertises the subject of the book, a prostitute and her tricks, as "set before thee as a Beacon to warn thee of the Shoales and Quick-sands, on which thou wilt of necessity Shipwrack thy All, if thou blindly and wilfully continuest and perseverest
in steering that Course of Female Debauchery, which will inevitably prove at length thy utter Destruction.
The Crimson Petal and the White: William soon becomes obsessed with a worldly young prostitute named Sugar,
An Almond for a Parrot: Novels about British prostitution: "Historians estimate that one in five women worked as prostitutes in 18th‑century London. Delaney takes care
to outline the abuse, assault, disease and abandonment that are also often the courtesan’s lot."
Novels: English author Sally Gardner (who writes children’s fiction) under the pseudonym Wray Delaney, this is an adult novel set in London in 1756,
Candy (Brooks novel): a 2005 young adult novel by Kevin Brooks about a doomed teenage love affair between a musician and a prostitute.
The story opens when Joe Beck, a music lover with a knack for curiosity, meets 16-year-old Candy on the streets of London. Joe soon learns that Candy is not only a runaway from her home town, but also a teenage prostitute and heroin addict
Fanny Hill: Novels about British prostitution: After being abandoned by Mr H—, Fanny becomes a prostitute for wealthy clients in a pleasure-house run by Mrs Cole. This marks the end of the first letter.
British: '''''Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure'''''—popularly known as '''''Fanny Hill''''' (possibly an anglicisation of the Latin ''mons veneris'', mound of Venus)—is an erotic novel by English novelist John Cleland first published in London in 1748.
Blow Your House Down: Published in 1984, the novel follows the lives of a number of prostitutes working in a northern English city at a time when a serial killer of prostitutes is haunting the area.
Moll Flanders: a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1722