THE CLEVELAND STREET AFFAIR. This item is unavailable.THE CLEVELAND STREET AFFAIR

Dust jacket has old repairs, light foxing on top edge, otherwise without flaw. After 75-years of strict secrecy, London's Public Records Office released the files on an extraordinary case - a scandal that occured at the close of the 19th-century and concerned the operation of a male brothel at 19 Cleveland Street, in the city's West End. The Cleveland Street Affair offers both an illuminating record of the scandal that briefly threatened Queen Victoria's throne at the height of her power and a ribald, copiously illustrated portrait of some eminent Victorians engaged in some unmentionable pursuits.