Using firsthand documents uncovered in the archives of a London foundling hospital, Barret-Ducrocq offers a marvelously acute census of Victorian sexual and moral attitudes.
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This highly readable narrative pulls back a curtain on Victorian sexuality, subverting the stereotyped images of prudish bourgeoisie and lewd lower class.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Interesting look at the other side of the coin,
This review is from: Love in the Time of Victoria: Sexuality and Desire Among Working-Class Men and Women in 19th Century London (Paperback)
Much has been said of the strumpets of yor, of wenches and bawdy house queens of the score...(from The Wicker Man, the Landlord's Daughter). Actually, much more have been written about the uptight, repressed era of Victoria's ton, were passions simmered just under the surface. This book goes into an area not mined, the views of sexuality and desire in the working-class men and women of 19th Century London. The Writer relied on first hand documents uncovered in the now-closed Archives of a London foundling hospital, love letters and first-hand testimonies in court cases, to details the views on rape, flirtation and prostitution to which many women of the period in London were driven to survive, and the inevitability of being pregnant and alone in this grinding poverty. The book contains cynicism, cruelty, yet is balanced with tenderness, dignity and generosity giving us a fascinating look behind the notions of Victoria's reign. A MUST for anyone interested in the period. Especially recommended for writers of Victorian romance.
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There was once a society which is still held above all others to be the paradigm of sexual hypocrisy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Foundling Hospital, Mary Ann, Hyde Park, Poor Law, Queen Charlotte's Hospital, Bethnal Green, Camden Town, General Lying-In Hospital, Henry Mayhew, Mary Barton, Sarah Ann, South Kensington, William Acton New!
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There was once a society which is still held above all others to be the paradigm of sexual hypocrisy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
social explorers, admission files Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Foundling Hospital, Mary Ann, Hyde Park, Poor Law, Queen Charlotte's Hospital, Bethnal Green, Camden Town, General Lying-In Hospital, Henry Mayhew, Mary Barton, Sarah Ann, South Kensington, William Acton New!
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- Liza of Lambeth (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by W. Somerset Maugham on page 31, and Back Matter
- Women, Work and Family by Louise A. Tilly in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Seven Curses of London by James Greenwood in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- English Plays of the Nineteenth Century: Volume 3: Comedies by Michael R. Booth in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Liza of Lambeth by W. Somerset Maugham on page 31, and Back Matter
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