Disorderly Women in Eighteenth-Century London: Prostitution and Control in the Metropolis, 1730-1830(Women and Men in History)

Series: Women and Men in History

This is the first full-length study of prostitution in London during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It is a compelling account, exposing the real lives of the capital's prostitutes, and also shedding light on London society as a whole, its policing systems and its attitudes towards the female urban poor. Drawing on the archives of London's parishes, jury records, reports from South