Peg Plunkett
Memoirs of a Whore
$46.68
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
8 August 2016
Summary
Of picking, washing and cleaning my pretty little toes, which he took great delight in, and in which pleasurable, innocent, and inoffensive pastime he as often spent hours; twas the greatest gratification to him on earth, nor did he (said she) indulge in any other in all the time we spent together, he never was even rude enough to give me a kiss.
So emerged the first expose of foot fetishism in the eighteenth-century. Revelations and racy anecdotes about the lives of the rich and…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781782067764 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1782067760 |
| Author: | Julie Peakman |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | Quercus Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 8 August 2016 |
| Weight: | 182g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 18mm |
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A fascinating and intelligent survey– Financial Times
A fascinating and intelligent survey - Financial Times
She displays the whole world of eighteenth-century erotica/porn … Peakman charts the changes in attitudes to male and female sexuality - Erotic ReviewAbout The Author
Julie Peakman
Dr. Julie Peakman is a well-known for her work as a historian in eighteenth-century culture, sexuality (all eras) and pornography. She is Honorary Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London, and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She is a frequent contributor to journals, magazines and television documentaries for BBC, Channel 4 and the Biography Channel. Her first book Mighty Lewd Books: The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth-Century England (Palgrave 2003) was met with acclaim, her second book Lascivious Bodies: A Sexual History of the Eighteenth Century (Atlantic Books, 2004) was a more light-hearted romp through the eighteenth-century sexual underworld. Her last book was The Pleasure’s All Mine. A History of Perverse Sex (Reaktion, 2013).
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