All Things Georgian
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All Things Georgian

Tales from the Long Eighteenth Century

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

All Things Georgian

Tales from the Long Eighteenth Century

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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Information

Publisher
Pen & Sword History
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9781526757852
eBook ISBN
9781526744623
Topic
History
Subtopic
Early Modern History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Introduction
  7. Timeline of Events Relevant to the Long Eighteenth-Century
  8. Chapter 1 Doggett’s Coat and Badge
  9. Chapter 2 The Venus of Luxembourg
  10. Chapter 3 The Velvet Coffee-Woman
  11. Chapter 4 Crazy Sally: A Female Bonesetter
  12. Chapter 5 The Polly Peerage
  13. Chapter 6 Cecil Court on Fire
  14. Chapter 7 Jenny Cameron: The Jacobite Mystery of a Female Imposter
  15. Chapter 8 The Queen’s Ass
  16. Chapter 9 Lady Wilbrahammon
  17. Chapter 10 The Queen of Smugglers
  18. Chapter 11 Circumnavigating Sir Joseph Banks’ Women
  19. Chapter 12 Mrs Hartley and the ‘Impudent Puppies’
  20. Chapter 13 Emily Warren, an ‘infamous and notoriously abandoned woman’
  21. Chapter 14 The Astronomer William Herschel and his Sister Caroline, a ‘Heavenly Hausfrau’
  22. Chapter 15 The Fabulously Famous Anna Maria Crouch
  23. Chapter 16 Up, Up and Away
  24. Chapter 17 French Revolution: The Flight to Varennes
  25. Chapter 18 Brighton’s Travelling Windmill
  26. Chapter 19 To Kill the King: Frith the Madman
  27. Chapter 20 The Norwich Nymph: A Female Jockey
  28. Chapter 21 Martha Udny, aka ‘Mrs Nibs’
  29. Chapter 22 King of the Resurrection Men
  30. Chapter 23 Caroline Crachami: The Sicilian Fairy
  31. Chapter 24 The Dramatic Life of Jonathan Martin, tanner
  32. Chapter 25 End of an Era
  33. Notes and Sources
  34. Also by the Same Authors