Courtesans by Katie Hickman

Courtesans

Katie Hickman

352 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative medium-paced
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'Irresistible...history at its most human. Elegant and addictively readable.' William DalrympleDuring the course of the 18th- and 19th-century a small group of women rose from impoverished obscurity to positions of great power, independence and we...

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