Showing A Great and Monstrous Thing: London in the Eighteenth Century by Jerry White

London in the Eighteenth Century Explores how and to what extent Londoners negotiated and repaired these open wounds. This book introduces us to shopkeepers and prostitutes, men and women of fashion and genius, street-robbers and thief-takers, as they play out the astonishing drama of life in eighteenth-century London. Full description