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39.
Ibid.

40.
Ibid., p. 418

41.
Ibid.

42.
Ibid.

43.
Ibid., p. 419

44.
Ibid., p. 447

45.
Ibid., p. 410

46.
Ibid., p. 439

47.
Ibid., p. 441

48.
Ibid., p. 442

49.
Ibid., p. 443

50.
Ibid., p. 441

51.
Ibid., p. 442

52.
Ibid., p. 448

53.
Ibid., p. 449

54.
Ibid.

55.
Ibid., p. 451

56.
Ibid.

57.
Ibid., p. 452

58.
Ibid., p. 477

59.
Ibid.

60.
Ibid.

Chapter Twelve

1.
See Linnane,
London the Wicked City
, pp. 319–20

2.
See Ziegler,
London at War
, p. 326

3.
See Showalter,
Sexual Anarchy
, p. 24

4.
See Nicolson,
Portrait of a Marriage
, p. 105

5.
See Houlbrook,
Queer London, Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis 1918–1957
, p. 45

6.
Ibid., p. 147

7.
Ibid., p. 158

8.
Ibid., p. 152

9.
Ibid., p. 97

10.
See
http://www.lgbthistorymonth.org.uk/history/LGBTpeople.htm

11.
See Alan Travis, ‘Cock-up and Cover-up',
Guardian
, 13 September 2000

12.
See ‘Lesbian novel was danger to nation',
Observer
, 2 January 2005

13.
See
http://www.nickelinthemachine.com/tag/ww2/

14.
See Lehmann,
The Weather in the Streets
, pp. 286–300

15.
See Smithies,
Crime in Wartime
, p. 132

16.
See Roberts,
Whores in History
, p. 278

17.
See Smithies, op. cit., p. 133

18.
Ibid., p. 134

19.
Ibid., p. 135

20.
Ibid., pp. 135–6

21.
See Srebnick and Lévy,
Crime and Culture
, p. 96

22.
See Smithies, op. cit., p. 136

23.
See Ziegler, op. cit., p. 214

24.
Ibid., p. 219

25.
Ibid., p. 217

26.
Ibid., p. 219

27.
See Smithies, op. cit., p. 142

28.
Ibid., p. 219

29.
Ibid., p. 142

30.
See Ziegler, op. cit., p. 220

31.
Ibid.

32.
Ibid., pp. 220–1

33.
See Ziegler, op. cit. and
http://www.nickelinthemachine.com/tag/ww2/

34.
See Ziegler, op. cit., p. 220

35.
See Smithies, op. cit., p. 142

36.
See
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,811034,00.html

37.
Ibid.

38.
Ibid.

39.
Ibid.

Chapter Thirteen

1.
See Alan Travis, ‘Cock-up and Cover-up',
Guardian
, 13 September 2000

2.
Ibid.

3.
Ibid.

4.
Ibid.

5.
Ibid.

6.
Ibid.

7.
See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Ward

8.
See Wheen,
The Sixties
, p. 93

9.
See
http://www.nickelinthemachine.com/2008/10/mayfair-the-duchess-of-argyll-and-the-headless-man-polaroids/

10.
See
http://www.nickelinthemachine.com/2009/02/no1-eaton-square-lord-boothby-and-ronnie-kray/

11.
Ibid.

12.
See Roberts,
Whores in History
, p. 288

13.
Ibid., p. 287

14.
See
http://www.nickelinthemachine.com/2009/02/no1-eaton-square-lord-boothby-and-ronnie-kray

15.
See Jim White, ‘A Mosque in Mayfair',
Independent
, 14 March 1996

16.
See Aidan Jones, ‘Prostitutes in legal victory to keep working',
London Informer
, 22 May 2009

17.
Ibid.

18.
Ibid.

19.
Ibid.

Chapter Fourteen

1.
See Nick Davies, ‘Inquiry fails to find single trafficker who forced anybody into prostitution',
Guardian
, 20 October 2009

Illustration Credits

Eros sculpture at chapter headings © Jon Bower/ Loop Images/ Corbis

 

Lupanaria
© Wellcome Library, London

 

Treatment of syphilitic couple © Bibliothèque nationale, Paris/ Giraudon/ The Bridgeman Art Library

 

Mary Frith © Mary Evans Picture Library

 

Elizabethan whorehouse © Private Collection/ The Bridgeman Art Library

 

Nell Gwyn engraved by Valentine Green, 1777, Sir Peter Lely © British Museum, London/ The Bridgeman Art Library

 

The Harlot's Progress
Plate 3: Apprehended by a Magistrate, 1732, William Hogarth © The Trustees of the Weston Park Foundation/The Bridgeman Art Library

 

Portrait of Richard Payne Knight,
c
. 1793, Sir Thomas Lawrence © Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester/ The Bridgeman Art Library

 

Catherine Walters © Mary Evans Picture Library

 

Haymarket prostitutes © Mary Evans Picture Library

 

Illustration from
Lysistrata
by Aristophanes by Aubrey Beardsley © Private Collection/ The Stapleton Collection/ The Bridgeman Art Library

 

Nineteenth-century male brothel © Wellcome Library, London

 

Lesbian couple in 1913 © Mary Evans Picture Library

 

Marie Stopes © Illustrated London News/ Mary Evans Picture Library

 

Cynthia Payne © Getty Images

 

Focus Cinema © Ronald Grant Archive/ Mary Evans Picture Library

 

London Life
cover © Illustrated London News, Mary Evans Picture Library

Index

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Abberline, Ch. Insp. Frederick

abortion

Abrams, Mr

Account of the Remains of the Worship of

Priapus
(Knight)

Acton, Dr William

Actone, Isabella

Adams, Niki

Adele, Helene

Adollizing

Adventures and Amours of a Barmaid

Adventures of a Bedstead

Aesthetic Movement

age of consent

Age of Discovery

Albert Victor, Prince (Eddy)

Albert, Archduke

alcoholism

Alexander VI, Pope

Alexandra of Denmark, Princess

Alhambra Music Hall

All's Well That Ends Well
(Shakespeare)

Allen, Ellen

Alleyn, Edward

Alsop, Robert

anal sex

heterosexual

see also
Buggery Act; homosexuality

Ancient Greece

Annan, Noel

Anne of Cleves

Anne, Queen

‘Another Unfortunate'

Apollo

Appoo (sailor)

Apuleius

Arabian Nights, The

Arbuthnot, Forster Fitzgerald

Archenholz, Johann Wilhelm von

Aretino, Pietro

Aretino, Pietro

Argentocoxus

Argyll, Duke of

Aristophanes

Armstrong, Eliza

Armstrong, Mr

Armstrong, Mrs

Ars Amatoria
(Ovid)

Art-Journal

As You Like It
(Shakespeare)

Ashbee, Henry Spencer (a.k.a. ‘Fraxi Pisanus')

Astor, Lord

Athenaeum

Atkins, Freddie

Attys

Aubrey, John

Augustus Caesar

Aulus Plautius, General

Austen, Alfred

auto-erotic asphyxiation

Awakening Conscience, The
(Hunt)

 

baby farms

Bacon, Anthony

Bacon, Sir Francis

Ball, John

Bankes, William

Barnfield, Richard

Barnham, Alice

Barr, Barbara

Bartholomew Fair
(Jonson)

Baseley, William

Basse, Elizabeth

bath houses

Bawds and Lodgings
(Burford)

bear-baiting

Bearden, Mr

Beardsley, Aubrey

Becket, Thomas à

Beckford, William

Bedford Head coffee house

Bedlam

Beerbohm, Max

Beggar's Opera, The
(Gay)

Bell, Vanessa

‘Belle de Jour'

Benkert, Dr

Berkeley, Ballard

Berkeley, Theresa

Birmingham Daily Post

Biron, Sir Charles

Bitter Cry of Outcast London, The
(Preston)

‘Black Harriott'

Black Death

Blagney, Justice

Blake, William

Bloomsbury Group

Blumenfeld, Simon

Blunt, William Scrawen

Bodkin, Sir Archibald

Boileau, Jacques

Boleyn, Anne

Boleyn, George

Bolingbroke, Lord

Bombay

Bona Dea

Bond, Anne

Boord, Dr Andrew

Booth, Bramwell

Boothby, Lord

Borderland

Borgia, Cesare

Borgia, Lucrezia

Boswell, James

Boudicca, Queen

Boudoir

Boulton and Park

Boulton, Ernest

Bradshaw, Frances

Brereton, William

Brideshead Revisited
(Waugh)

Bridewell prison

‘Bridge of Sighs, The' (Hood)

Brief Encounter

British Medical Journal

British Museum

Britten, Benjamin

Brookfield, Charles

Brooks, Louise

brothels (‘stews'):

Bankside

basic functionality of

early flourishing of

Edward III's enlightened attitude towards

example of, described

Henry VIII orders closure of

Holland's Leaguer (Manor House)

homosexual,
see
molly houses

interior

lupinaria

passim

mostly female-controlled

Prick Office

‘Priscilla Fotheringham's Chuck Office' (Six Windmills)

seraglios

Shrovetide/Bawdy House riots and

Six Windmills

sleazy clubs operate as

successive monarchs try to abolish

West Smithfield

see also
molly houses; prostitution; ‘walk-ups'

Brown, Thomas

Brown, Tom

Browne, Tom

Browning, Oscar

Buckhurst, Lord

Buckingham, Lord

buggery

wider meaning of

see also
anal sex; homosexuality

Buggery Act (later Statute)

repeal of

see also
anal sex

Bunny, John

Burford, E. J.

Burgess, Mother

Burne-Jones, Edward

Burnet, Bishop

‘burning',
see
syphilis

Burton, Sir Richard

Busino, Orazio

Bute, Lord

Butler, Josephine

Byrde, William

 

Caligula, Emperor

Cambridge University

Campbell, Lord

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

Canning, George

Cannon, John

Canterbury Tales
(Chaucer)

Carey, Henry

Carroll, Lewis

Carson, Edward

Casanova

Castiglione

Castlemaine, Lady,
see
Villiers, Barbara

Catherine of Aragon

Catherine de' Medici, Queen

Cato the Elder

Catullus

Cecil, Sir David

Central News Agency

Cervantes, Miguel de

Chamberlain, William

Chamberlen, Dr

Chapman, Annie

Charles I, King

execution of

Charles II, King

compulsive womanizer

Gwynn and

Charles V, Emperor

Charles Lavy & Co.

Charles, Duke of St Albans

Charrington, Frederick

Charteris, Col.

Chatto and Windus

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Chiffinch, William

‘China Emma'

Churchill, Lady Randolph

Churchill, Sir Winston

Clapham, Mary

Clarence, Duke of

Clark, Dr Le Gros

Clarke, Sir Edward

Claterballock, Clarice la

Claudius, Emperor

Cleland, John

Clinton, Lord Arthur

Cockburn, Lord Ch. Justice

Coke, Sir Edward

Coles, Frances

Collet, Mrs

Columbus, Christopher

‘Condom', Col.

condoms

Confessions of a Ballet Girl

Coningsby
(Disraeli)

Connubial Guide, The

Contagious Diseases Act

Conway, Alfonso

Cook, Captain James

Cornwallis, Lord

Cornwell, Patricia

Correggio, Antonio da

Courtney, Edward

Cox, Mr

Cozens, John Robert

Cragg, Elizabeth

Cranston, Isabella

Craven, Earl of

Cresswell, Elizabeth

Criminal Law Amendment Act

Crisp, Quentin

Cromwell, Oliver

mistress of

Cromwell, Richard

Cromwell, Thomas

execution of

cross-dressing

Crosse, Nicholas

Crowley, Aleister

Cruikshank, Dan

Crusades

cucking stools

Curll, Edmund

Curtain Theatre

Curzon, George Nathaniel

Cutler, Robert

Cymbeline, King

 

Daily Advertiser

Daily Courant

Daily Mail

Daily Telegraph

Dalton, William de

Damm, Vivien Van

Dashwood, Sir Francis

Davenant, Sir William

David and Jonathan

David Copperfield
(Dickens)

David, Mary

Davies, Sir John

Davies, John

Day Lewis, Cecil

De Morbo Gallico
(Fallopio)

De usu flagorum
(Melbonius)

De usu flagorum
(Melbonius)

‘Debauchée, The' (Rochester)

Dekker, Thomas

Denning, Lord

Devereaux, Robert

‘Diary of a London Call Girl' (‘Belle de Jour')

Dickens, Charles

Dickens, Geoffrey

Digby, Sir Kenelm

dildos,

‘Discourse on the Worship of Priapus' (Knight)

Disraeli, Benjamin

dog fighting

Don Quixote
(Cervantes)

Donbelly, Alice

Donne, John

Dors, Diana

Dorset, Earl of

Douglas, Francis Archibald, Viscount Drumlanrig

Douglas, Lord Alfred (‘Bosie')

Douglas, John Sholto, Marquess of Queensberry

Douglas, Norman

Douglas, William

Dowson, Ernest

Driberg, Tom

Druitt, Montague John

Drummond, William

Dryden, John

ducking stools

Dudley, Earl of Leicester

Duffield, Francis

Dugdale, William

Duke's Theatre

Dulwich College

Dutch Courtesan, The
(Marston)

Dyer, Alfred

Dysart, Bess

 

Eton College

Ecclestone, Jacob

Eddowes, Catherine

Edelmonton, Henri de

Edgecombe, Johnny

Edward I, King

Edward II, King

Edward III, King

Edward IV, King

Edward VI

Edward VII, King

Edward VIII, King

Edward the Confessor

Egg, Augustus

Elizabeth I, Queen

Elliot, Mary

Ellman, Richard

English Civil War

English Collective of Prostitutes

English Governess, The

Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine

Eon de Beaumont, Chevalier d'

Epstein, Fanny

Epstein, Jacob

Erasmus

Erotic Review

Etherege, George

Eton College

eunuchs

‘European Slave Trade in English Girls, The' (Dyer)

Evelyn, John

Evening Standard

Evesham, Ellen de

Exhibition of Female Flagellants, The
(Wilson)

Experimental Lecture
(Lazenby)

 

Fabricius

Fairbanks, Douglas Jr

Fallopio, Gabriello

Fanny Hill, see Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

Fawkland, Miss

Fenton, Lavinia

Finch, Lord

Fish, Dr Simon

Fisher, Kitty

Fitzroy, Henry, Earl of Euston

flagellation

Flowers, Mr

Forster, E. M.

Fortnightly Review

Fotheringham, Priss

Found
(Rossetti)

Found Drowned
(Watts)

Fountain

Fracastoro, Girolamo

France

Frances, Viscountess Fane

Franklin, Benjamin

‘Fraxi, Pisanus' (Henry Spencer Ashbee)

Freud, Sigmund

Frith, Mary

 

Gardiner, Archbishop

Gardner, Ava

Gardner, Helen

Garfield, John

Garland, Judy

Garnett, David

Garrick, David

gay,
see
homosexuality; lesbianism

Gay, John

George II, King

George III, King

George IV, King

Germany

Gethin, Jeuan

Gibbs, Alice

Gibson, Dr J. R.

Giuliani, Rudolph

Gladstone, William

Globe Playhouse

Goadsby, Mrs

Godwin, Earl

Golden Ass, The
(Apuleius)

Golding, Arthur

Goncourt brothers

Gonson, Sir John

Goodman, Arnold

Gordon, Lord William

Gosson, Stephen

Gould, Mrs

Gourlay, Jack

Grainger, Walter

Grant, William

Graves, Robert

Greenwood, James

Griffith-Jones, Mervyn

Guardian

Guerard

Guilpin, Everard

Gwynn, Nell

wit of

Gwynn, Thomas

Gynaikeion
(Heywood)

 

Hackabout, Kate

Hackabout, Moll (character)

passim

Hadfield, Dr J. A.

Hall, Radclyffe

Hall, Vivienne

Hamilton, George

Hamilton, Kate

Hamilton, Lord

Hamilton, Sir William

Hammond, Charles

Hammond, Mr

Hancarville, Baron d' (Pierre François Hughes)

Hankey, Frederick

Hardy, Thomas

Harlot's Progress, The
(Hogarth)

passim

Harpocrates

Harris, Frank

Harris, Mr

Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies

Harrow School

Hart, Charles

Hartington, Marquis of

Hastings, Lord

Hawkins, Lord Justice

Hawtrey, Charles

Hayes
v.
Jaques

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