A review by wyvernfriend
The Secret History of Georgian London: How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital by Dan Cruickshank

4.0

Fairly detailed but this should also be compulsory reading for Regency Historical writers. You can see how companions and guards would be necessary when there were so many people who were involved in the sex industry one street over. This is a book about how basically Prostitution was one of the major earners in London during the Georgian period. That this was how a lot of people made their living, how then as now, the women were often blamed rather than the clients and how some people prospered but for most it was nasty, brutish and short.

Some of it did feel a little repetitive and I really wanted better pictures of some of the black and white images, some of the detail mentioned wasn't visible in the reproductions.