One of our leading historians describes how Georgian London was shaped by the sex industry
Dan Cruickshank is an architectural historian and television presenter. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, a member of the Executive Committee of the Georgian Group, and on the Architectural Panel of the National Trust. His recent work includes the television programmes and accompanying books Around the World in 80 Treasures (2005) and Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture (2008). He lives in Spitalfields, London.
Belle de Jour for the 18th century. Funny, fantastical, full of
impossible facts and scandalous stories. Scholarly, but also the
ideal stocking (and suspender) filler
*Guardian*
I heartily recommend this scholarly romp through the bordellos,
inns and prisons of Henry Fielding's and John Wilkes's London
*Reader's Digest*
Fascinating ... Cruickshank removes the bland façade to expose one
of London's biggest and most lively industries - its trade in sex
... a lively and scholarly panorama of Georgian London before the
sex trade was chased underground by the Victorians and we all
became prudish instead
*Daily Mail*
This is a colossal melting pot of a book: ambitious, rigorously
researched, vigorously narrated and marvellously illustrated. All
of life is here, but not as we know it
*Sunday Times*
The author paints an illuminating, eye-opening and generous account
of the capital's courtesans, harlots, bath-houses and brothels. A
book to read by the light of a flickering candle
*Telegraph*
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