… outlining the audience and purpose of the assembly as ‘a stated and general meeting of the polite persons of both sexes; for the sake of conversation, gallantry, news, and play’. 5 The assembly rooms were spaces for balls, concerts, …
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… observed visiting Bethlem, brought together by the lowest common denominators of needs: to laugh at others, to satisfy sexual desire, and, in the case of the ‘Mistresses’, simply to survive. Sociability serves many functions, and one …
… old, Emma moved to London to work in service and with the hopes of a career on the London stage, but she was forced into sex work. She is believed to have worked in a brothel and at the quack doctor James Graham’s Temple of Health before …
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