Courtesans: Money, Sex, and Fame in the Nineteenth Century - Hardcover

Hickman, Katie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0066209552 ISBN 13: 9780066209555

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 2003

Synopsis

An examination of the lives of nineteenth-century Britian's demimonde offers insight into the hierarchies, etiquette, and protocols of the period's courtesans, focusing on five women of particular influence as well as the factors that contributed to their social successes and decline. 20,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

Praise for Daughters of Britannia:

‘This is a delightful and exceptionally well-written book, funny, lively and warm-hearted.’
Philip Ziegler, Daily Telegraph

‘This is a lovely book: affectionate, celebratory and as conscious of the glory as the hardship. These women lived; they saw dolphins in the Bosphorous at dawn, took tea with empresses, watched eclipses in Turkistan. And they were so lonely that they wrote it all down.’
Libby Purves, Sunday Times

About the Author:

Katie Hickman was born into a diplomatic family in 1969 and has spent more than twenty-five years living abroad in Europe, the Far East and Latin America. She is the author of the bestselling Daughters of Britannia. She has also been short listed for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award for A Trip to the Light Fantastic, to be reissued as Travels with a Circus and was short listed for the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year for her novel The Quetzal Summer.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0066209552
• ISBN 13: 9780066209555
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320