- 192 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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About This Book
Experience life in Britain's "long eighteenth-century" with this collection of 25 real tales from history by the authors of An Infamous Mistress. Marvel at the Queen's Ass, gaze at the celestial heavens through the eyes of the past, and be amazed by the equestrian feats of the Norwich Nymph. Journey to the debauched French court at Versailles, travel to Covent Garden and take your seat in a box at the theatre, and, afterwards, join the mile-high club in a new-fangled hot air balloon. Meet actresses, whores and high-born ladies, politicians, inventors, royalty, and criminals as we travel through the Georgian era in all its glorious and gruesome glory. In roughly chronological order, covering the reign of the four Georges (1714-1830), and set within the framework of the main events of the era, these tales are accompanied by over 100 stunning color illustrations.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Timeline of Events Relevant to the Long Eighteenth-Century
- Chapter 1 Doggettâs Coat and Badge
- Chapter 2 The Venus of Luxembourg
- Chapter 3 The Velvet Coffee-Woman
- Chapter 4 Crazy Sally: A Female Bonesetter
- Chapter 5 The Polly Peerage
- Chapter 6 Cecil Court on Fire
- Chapter 7 Jenny Cameron: The Jacobite Mystery of a Female Imposter
- Chapter 8 The Queenâs Ass
- Chapter 9 Lady Wilbrahammon
- Chapter 10 The Queen of Smugglers
- Chapter 11 Circumnavigating Sir Joseph Banksâ Women
- Chapter 12 Mrs Hartley and the âImpudent Puppiesâ
- Chapter 13 Emily Warren, an âinfamous and notoriously abandoned womanâ
- Chapter 14 The Astronomer William Herschel and his Sister Caroline, a âHeavenly Hausfrauâ
- Chapter 15 The Fabulously Famous Anna Maria Crouch
- Chapter 16 Up, Up and Away
- Chapter 17 French Revolution: The Flight to Varennes
- Chapter 18 Brightonâs Travelling Windmill
- Chapter 19 To Kill the King: Frith the Madman
- Chapter 20 The Norwich Nymph: A Female Jockey
- Chapter 21 Martha Udny, aka âMrs Nibsâ
- Chapter 22 King of the Resurrection Men
- Chapter 23 Caroline Crachami: The Sicilian Fairy
- Chapter 24 The Dramatic Life of Jonathan Martin, tanner
- Chapter 25 End of an Era
- Notes and Sources
- Also by the Same Authors