Showing Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century by Katie Hickman
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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.
Important places
Bois de Boulogne (3)Covent Garden (38)
Hyde Park (12)
Mayfair (15)
Westminster Abbey (45)
Athens (366)
Bath (199)
Biarritz (17)
Brighton (156)
Chertsey (2)
London (7,094)
New York (7,400)
Pauillac (5)
Venice (842)
Counties
New York (8,072)Regions
Bath and North East Somerset (205)Camden (291)
Brighton and Hove (169)
Venezia (843)
Surrey (137)
Paris (3,057)
Gironde (81)
Pyrénées-Atlantiques (31)
New York (9,763)
Westminster (148)
Attiki (392)
Countries
France (7,260)United Kingdom (21,421)
Italy (5,202)
Greece (1,635)
United States (64,950)
Other geographical areas
Basque Country (79)Nouvelle-Aquitaine (223)
Veneto (954)
Appalachian Mountains (1,111)
Balkans (2,385)
South East (2,496)
South West (2,602)
Ile-de-France (3,166)
New England (5,830)
Southern Europe (7,123)
Greater London (7,856)
North Atlantic Ocean (8,812)