Monday, January 9, 2012
Wits, Wenchers and Wantons -- London's Low Life: Covent Garden in the Eighteenth Century
Product Description Vice was the currency of Covent Garden's wealth in the eighteenth century and nowhere was the pursuit of pleasure more ardently or more publicly conducted than around Inigo Jones's piazza. All manner of erotic pastimes were on offer in 'the Grand Seraglio of the Nation', with every level of society, from the highest nobility to the most miserable pauper, represented. The entertainments matched the sophistication of the clientele: from the high-class courtesans to the degenerate street-traders for whom drunkenness and violence were often companions of lust. In a display of frankness which
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