Courtesans
Subtitle: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: November 25, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780066209555
Subjects: History; Modern - 19th Century; General; Courtesans; History - General History; History: World; Great Britain; Anthropology - Cultural; Europe - Great Britain - General; History / General; Biography; 19th century; Courts and courtiers
First sentence: 'WE NOW BEGAN to think of the masquerade,' wrote Eliza Steele comfortably in her long and gossipy memoir of the life of Sophia Baddeley, and we settled it that Mrs Baddeley should go in the character of Juliet, and I in that of the Nurse.