Prostitution and eighteenth-century culture : sex, commerce and morality / edited by Ann Lewis and Markman Ellis.

Figures of ill repute : representing prostitution in nineteenth-century France / Charles Bernheimer.

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Prostitution and eighteenth-century culture : sex, commerce and morality / edited by Ann Lewis and Markman Ellis.

Figures of ill repute : representing prostitution in nineteenth-century France / Charles Bernheimer.