The Wedding Night Or The Battles Of Venus
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The Wedding Night Or The Battles Of Venus
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language : en
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The Daughters Of Thespis Or A Peep Behind The Curtain
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Author : Thespis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1841
The Daughters Of Thespis Or A Peep Behind The Curtain written by Thespis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1841 with categories.
The Wedding Night
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Author : Jane Merrill
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2011-04-07
The Wedding Night written by Jane Merrill and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-07 with Social Science categories.
This enlightening narrative takes a look at the wedding night—its origins, history, customs, cultural expressions, and fictional representations through the ages. Though just outside of public view, the wedding night is loaded with expectation and consequence. The Wedding Night: A Popular History is an entertaining, accessible, touching, and humorous volume that looks at the previously unexplored topic of wedding history "between the sheets." Covering a kaleidoscopic array of cultural expressions, this unique study zooms in on what's quintessential and shares insights into the history of intimacy through the ages. The book traces the formalization of the wedding night in the ancient Near East and classical world, provides many examples of historically significant unions in European and American history, and describes the lively variety of traditions leading up to the present. Spicing their narrative with many piquant quotes from contemporary sources, the authors explore the rich cultural context for the wedding night—processions, royal rituals, apparel, food-related traditions, and pranks—throughout Europe and America in the 19th and 20th centuries. Separate chapters examine sex guides, jokes, and the bed as a special conjugal space.
I Sherlock Holmes
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Author : Michael Harrison
language : en
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Release Date : 1977
I Sherlock Holmes written by Michael Harrison and has been published by Dutton Adult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Fiction categories.
"In 1915, at the height of his career, Sherlock Holmes wrote his Memoirs and deposited the manuscript for safekeeping at the British Museum. Released by the Museum sixty years later, the manuscript has now been edited by the world's leading authority on Holmes. To Dr Watson, Sherlock Holmes was the best and wisest man that Watson had ever known. But what was he really like -- this man of modest birth who made himself the most famous private detective of all time, trusted agent, friend and confidant of the Great? Here is the great sleuth's own fearless analysis of his complex nature: his drug-taking; his ambitions; his reasons for not marrying; and his passion for the One Woman who would always be beyond his reach. The Memoirs are full of surprises even for confirmed Holmesians, revealing aspects of Holmes's life that neither Dr Watson nor Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were aware of. For instance, they show that the most powerful influence in shaping Homes's career, by finding him illustrious clients, was the American financier William H. Vanderbilt. But if the Memoirs take us into a world of wealth and power, there is another world with which Holmes became equally well acquainted: that raffish demimonde his half-dozen carefully contrived 'other selves' could penetrate without endangering the life -- of reputation -- of Sherlock Holmes. The adventures of these masquerade characters, ranging from 'a groom out of livery' to a female temperance campaigner, throw new and amusing light on Holmes's 'undercover' activities. Holmes touches only occasionally in these Memoirs on his actual methods of detection; he is concerned primarily with describing the world in which he flourished, and his place in it. Almost every great name in modern history up to World War I -- in the United States as well as in the Old World -- appears in the dramatis personae of Sherlock Holmes's astonishing life."--Goodreads
Newlyweds On Tour
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Author : Barbara Penner
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2009
Newlyweds On Tour written by Barbara Penner and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Architecture categories.
An original, richly illustrated analysis of American honeymooning, 1820-1900, that offers fresh insights into the intersecting histories of tourism, consumerism, sentiment, sexuality, and conjugality
Sixpenny Stalls
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Author : Beryl Kingston
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2012-10-16
Sixpenny Stalls written by Beryl Kingston and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-16 with Fiction categories.
As England basks in the golden years of Queen Victoria's reign, the Easter empire that began half a decade before with Nan Easter's newspaper walk, is growing from strength to strength. But then tragedy strikes, threatening to take all of Nan's hard-earned achievements away. Nan's son and heir, John, is killed an accident, so Nan has to entrust the vital task of running the business to someone else within the family. The natural choice is John's daughter, Caroline. Although still young, Caroline is spirited and forthright, brimming with new ideas for A. Easter and Sons - the most important being the introduction of books onto their newspaper stalls. But although Caroline proves to be as brilliant a businesswoman as Nan Easter herself, her weak-willed and ambitious cousin Edward, envious of her success and aghast at the thought that a girl should be managing things, becomes involved in a plot to sow the seeds of her downfall. However, Caroline, a born fighter, is prepared to meet this unexpected challenge head-on...
Bibliography Of Forbidden Books
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Author : Henry Spencer Ashbee
language : en
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Release Date : 2007-11-01
Bibliography Of Forbidden Books written by Henry Spencer Ashbee and has been published by Cosimo, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-01 with Reference categories.
In this final volume of the 1877 work that established him as England's leading authority on pornography, Henry Spencer Ashbee describes scores of "curious, uncommon and erotic books" that were banned or otherwise prohibited from legitimate sale during the Victorian era. Included in this volume are such "gentlemen only" titles as Intrigues and Confessions of a Ballet Girl, The Pleasures of Kissing and Being Kissed, and the infamous Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. This catalog of mostly forgotten works is an invaluable-and highly entertaining-resource for bibliophiles, students of erotica, and collectors of Victoriana. British book collector, travel writer, and bibliographer HENRY SPENCER ASHBEE (1834-1900), aka Pisanus Fraxi, is thought by some to have authored the notorious Victorian sexual memoir My Secret Life.
City Of Sin
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Author : Catharine Arnold
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2010-08-05
City Of Sin written by Catharine Arnold and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-05 with History categories.
If Paris is the city of love, then London is the city of lust. For over a thousand years, England's capital has been associated with desire, avarice and the sins of the flesh. Richard of Devises, a monk writing in 1180, warned that 'every quarter [of the city] abounds in great obscenities'. As early as the second century AD, London was notorious for its raucous festivities and disorderly houses, and throughout the centuries the bawdy side of life has taken easy root and flourished. In the third book of her fascinating London trilogy, award-winning popular historian Catharine Arnold turns her gaze to the city's relationship with vice through the ages. From the bath houses and brothels of Roman Londinium, to the stews and Molly houses of the 17thand 18thcenturies, London has always traded in the currency of sex. Whether pornographic publishers on Fleet Street, or fancy courtesans parading in Haymarket, its streets have long been witness to colourful sexual behaviour. In her usual accessible and entertaining style, Arnold takes us on a journey through the fleshpots of London from earliest times to present day. Here are buxom strumpets, louche aristocrats, popinjay politicians and Victorian flagellants - all vying for their place in London's league of licentiousness. From sexual exuberance to moral panic, the city has seen the pendulum swing from Puritanism to hedonism and back again. With latter chapters looking at Victorian London and the sexual underground of the 20thcentury and beyond, this is a fascinating and vibrant chronicle of London at its most raw and ribald.
Physiognomia The Secrets Of Nature Revealed Translated From The Original Latin To Which Is Added Safe Methods Of Curing Impotency Etc
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Author : Sir Michael SCOTT
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1832
Physiognomia The Secrets Of Nature Revealed Translated From The Original Latin To Which Is Added Safe Methods Of Curing Impotency Etc written by Sir Michael SCOTT and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1832 with categories.
The Second Greatest Disappointment
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Author : Karen Dubinsky
language : en
Publisher: Between The Lines
Release Date : 1999
The Second Greatest Disappointment written by Karen Dubinsky and has been published by Between The Lines this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
A lively and wide-ranging work on the history of the North American honeymoon, and, of necessity, the tourist industry at Niagara Falls. Dubinsky charts the growth of Niagara Falls as a tourist destination from the 1850s to the 1960s and explains how it acquired its reputation as the "Honeymoon Capital of the World." Ultimately, the author asks: Of all the ways to promote a waterfall, why honeymoons? Winner of the 2000 Albert B. Corey prize from the Canadian Historical Association and the American Historical Association for the best book in Canadian-American history.