How the jilt triumphed over the slut: The evolution of an epithet, 1660-1780

Women's Writing

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 141-161

  Blackwell, Bonnie ^a  

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EID: 34347286850     PISSN: 09699082     EISSN: 17475848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09699080400200225     Document Type: Article

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22. Anon (attributed to Alexander Oldys), The London Jilt:or, the Politick Whore. Shewing all the Artifices and Stratagems which the Ladies of Pleasure make use of for the Intreaguing and Decoying of Men; Interwoven with several Pleasant Stories of the Misses Ingenious Performances Hen. Rhodes London 1683 1 no page number. All subsequent quotations will be from this edition and will be cited parenthetically in the text as LJ
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24. Anon The German Princess Revived:or The London Jilt, Being a True Account of the Life and Death of Jenny Voss, published from her own confession George Croom London 1684 3 All subsequent quotations will be from this edition and will be cited parenthetically in the text as GP
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26. Head Richard, The Canting Academy, or, The Devils Cabinet Opened, wherein is shown the mysterious and villainous practices of that wicked crew, commonly known by the name of hectors, trapanners, gilts &c; to which is added a compleat canting-dictionary, both of old words, and such as are now most in use F. Leach London 1673 94
27. Modleski Tonia, Loving with a Vengeance:Mass-Produced Fantasies for Women Methuen New York 1982 95
28. Behn Aphra, “The Fair Jilt,” The Works of Aphra Behn Todd Janet, Ohio State University Press Columbus 1995 3 26 All subsequent quotations will be from this edition and will be cited parenthetically in the text as FJ
29. Dinnerstein Dorothy, The Mermaid and the Minotaur quoted in Modleski, 94
30. The play very frankly concedes to female authority, most clearly in a metadramatic moment in Act 2 when Lady Brissac vows to write a play cautioning husbands that wives, like lutes, grow out of tune when fumbled upon by artless hands, and sometimes need to be tuned by professionals:she literally appears to be the author of the play
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36. According to William Ober, Boswell had the clap nineteen times between 1760 and 1790, but Ober theorizes that eventually Boswell was simply reactivating his disease through sexual excess rather than contracting new infections. Ober William, MD. Boswell's Clap and Other Essays:Medical Analyses of Literary Men's Afflictions Harper & Row New York 1979 40 42
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43. Linda Merians concurs, saying, “It would not be engaging in overstatement to say that venereal disease must have played a significant role in raising the level of misogyny during the eighteenth century.” “Introduction,” The Secret Malady:Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France Merians Linda, University Press of Kentucky Lexington 1996 7
44. Some of this list is taken from Greer (p. 298), and some from canting dictionaries like Grose Francis, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue S. Hooper London 1785 and Newgate confessions published between 1670 and 1785
45. Mullan Reid 56
46. Rhodes Richard, “Aural Images,” Sound Symbolism Hinton Leanne, Nichols Johanna, Ohala John, J. Cambridge University Press Cambridge 1994 278
47. Spongberg Mary, Feminizing Venereal Disease:The Body of the Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century Medical Discourse New York University Press New York 1997 37
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49. Reid David, Sound Symbolism Constable Edinburgh 1967 34
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51. Greer 296