Memoirs of women of pleasure: The whore biography

Women's Writing

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 163-184

  Peakman, Julie ^a  

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EID: 34347315602     PISSN: 09699082     EISSN: 17475848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09699080400200226     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. Norberg states, “The libertine whore is utterly fictional, an image which had more to do with male fantasy than with social reality” “The Libertine Whore:Prostitution in French Pornography” The Invention of Pornography:Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity, 1500-1800 Hunt Lynn, Zone Books, 1993 New York 225 252
2. For an overview of images of women the eighteenth century, see Trudgill Eric, The Origins and Development of Victorian Sexual Attitudes Heinemann, 1976 London Women in the Eighteenth Century and Other Essays Fritz Paul, MortonRichard Toronto & Sarasota, Hakkert & Co. 1976 Rogers Katherine, Feminism in the Eighteenth Century Harvester, 1982 London For useful anthologies, see Hill Bridget, Eighteenth Century Women:An Anthology 1984 Jones Vivien, Women in the Eighteenth Century Routledge, 1990 London
3. Richardson Joanna, The Courtesans:the demi-monde in 19th Century France Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967 London
4. d'Archenholz M., A Picture of England; Containing a Description of the Laws, Customs and Manners of England P. Byre, 1790 Dublin 189
5. I have examined first editions of Harriette Wilson and Julia Johnson's memoirs, both held in the British Library; Harriette Wilson, The Interesting Memoirs and Amorous Adventures of Harriette Wilson (London, Published by W. Chubb, 7 Fetter Lane; T. Blacketer, 19 Vere Street, Clare Market; and T. Reed, 90, Drury Lane, 1825) (hereafter referred to as HW); Julia Johnstone, Confessions of Julia Johnstone (London, Benbow, 1825) (hereafter referred to as JJ∥. Harriette Wilson's memoirs have been reprinted The Game of Hearts. Harriette Wilson and Her Memoirs Blanch Lesley, Gryphon Books, 1957 London (hereafter referred to as LB). I have used The Memoirs of Mrs. Leeson, Madam 1727-1797 Lyons's Mary, Lilliput Press, 1995 Dublin (hereafter referred to as ML)
6. Speck W., “The Harlot's Progress in Eighteenth-century England” British Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies 1980 3 127 139 Staves Susan, “British Seduced Maidens” Eighteenth Century Studies 1980/81 14 109 134
7. See Peakman Julie, Mighty Lewd Books. The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth-Century England Palgrave Macmillan London 2003 “Bodily Anxieties in Enlightenment Sex Literature”, Voltaire Studies, forthcoming; Peakman, “Initiation, Defloration and Flagellation:Sexual Propensities in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure” This Launch into the Wide World:Essays on Fanny Hill Fowler Patsy, JacksonAlan AMS Press, 2003 New York 153 172 “Medicine, the Body and the Botanical Metaphor in Erotica” From Physico-Theology to Bio-Technology Bayertz Kurt, PorterRoy Rodopi B.V., 1998 Amsterdam 197 223