Whore Biographies 1700-1825 Part I Vol 1

Focuses on autobiographies and biographies of courtesans, directories of whores, erotic poems dedicated to harlots, jocular descriptions of prostitutes and jest books on strumpets. These provide sources for the study of sexuality, gender, women's studies and the literature and history of the eighteenth century. Volume 1; General Introduction [John Dunton], Th e Shortest-Way with Whores and Rogues (1703) The Life of the Late Celebrated Mrs. Elizabeth Wisebourn (1721) The Effigies, Parentage, Education, Life, Merry-Pranks and Conversation of the Celebrated Mrs. Sally Salisbury (1722–3) Sally Salisbury’s letter to Frank Rig (1723) An Account of the Tryal of Salley Salisbury (1723) [Bernard Mandeville], A Modest Defence of Publick Stews (1725) A Modest Defence of Chastity (1726)