Full name: Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century

Author: Katie Hickman Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780060935146 9780007113927 0060935146 0007113927

During the course of the nineteenth century, a small group of women rose from impoverished obscurity to positions of great power, independence, and wealth. In doing so they took control of their lives -- and those of other people -- and made the world do their will. Extremely accomplished, well-educated, and unusually literate, courtesans exerted an incredible influence as leaders of society. They were not received at court, but inhabited their own parallel world -- the demimonde -- complete with its own hierarchies, etiquette, and protocol. They were queens of fashion, linguists, musicians, accomplished at political intrigue, and, of course, possessors of great erotic gifts. Even to be seen in public with one of the great courtesans was a much-envied achievement. Similar books: The Book of the Courtesans by Susan Griffin Daughters of Britannia by Katie Hickman Doomed Queens by Kris Waldherr The Warrior Queens by Antonia Fraser A Treasury of Deception by Michael Farquhar Ladies of Liberty by Cokie Roberts Oh, Yikes! by Joy Masoff She-Wolves by Helen Castor The Greatest Stories Never Told by Rick Beyer Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace by Kate Summerscale A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans by Michael Farquhar Sex with the Queen by Eleanor Herman Inventing the Victorians by Matthew Sweet Strangers by Graham Robb What the Butler Saw by E. S. Turner The Wright Brothers by David McCullough Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester Zeitoun by Dave Eggers Mobituaries by Mo Rocca