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History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800
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The Secret History of Georgian London: How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital
The Secret History Of Georgian
London: How The Wages Of Sin
Shaped The Capital
    Georgian London evokes
    images of elegant
    buildings and fine art,
    but 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. The sex industry
    was, in fact, a very
    powerful force indeed,
    and in The Secret
    History of Georgian
    London    , Dan
    Cruickshank compellingly
    shows how it came to
    affect almost every
    aspect of life and
    culture in the
    capital.

    His
    approach is an
    ambitiously wide-ranging
    one. He examines the
    nature of the sex trade
    and the sort of people
    who became involved in
    it. He looks at the ways
    in which it shaped the
    building of Georgian
    London, from the smart
    new streets that sprang
    up in Marylebone to the
    squalid alleys around
    Charing Cross, and from
    the coffee houses where
    many prostitutes operated
    to the popular
    bathhouses, or bagnios,
    now known to us often
    only from fleeting
    references and
    tantalising
    archaeological remains.
    He examines the impact of
    prostitution on the arts
    and, in particular, on
    such artists as William
    Hogarth and Joshua
    Reynolds. And he
    discusses the very varied
    attitudes of
    contemporaries
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