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The brothel of Pompeii : sex, class, and gender at the margins of Roman society / Sarah Levin-Richardson, University of Washington, Seattle.
Levin-Richardson, Sarah, 1980-Date: 2019- Books
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The picture gallery. Containing near two hundred paintings by the most distinguished ladies in Great Britain. Among which are the following Capital Pieces, The Widow Brady, - by Dowager Lady A-r. The Libertine reclaimed, - by the D-ss of C-d. The Highland Laddie, - by Lady S-h B-y. The Rake's Progress, - by Lady C-s. Baucis, - by P-ss A-a. Cymon and Iphigene, - by Duchess of D-re. The Careless Husband, - by Ditto. Lady Brute, - by Lady F-l-. The Dust Cart, - by Ditto. Jobson and Nell, - by Duchess of G-r. Old Margaret, - by Mrs. Gr-h-m, late Mrs. Mac-y. The Sweepstakes, - by Dowager D-ss of A-r. An old Woman cloathed in Gray, - by Lady G-ch. Venus making Love, - by the Honorable Mrs. H-b-t. Lavinia bathing, - by Miss H-m. Jephtha's Daughter bewailing her Virginity, by Countess of J-y. Lady Godina riding through Coventry, by Quondam Lady L-r. Bess of Bedlam, - by Lady N-th. An English Seraglio, - by the Countess of O-y. Pandora's Box, - by Lady R-s. Diana Trapes, - by Lady John S-Lle. Robinetta, - by Dowager C-ss of B-m-re. Saint Austin out of his Wits, - by Mrs. W-b-t-n. Desdemona, - by Lady T-d. The Torch of Hymen, - by C-ss of B-l. Gammar Gurton's Needle, - by Dowager Lady T-d, &c. &c. &c. To which are added, critical strictures upon each piece.
Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]- Books
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The universal masquerade: or, the world turn'd inside-out. Delineating and detecting the virtues and vices of mankind, From The Court to the Cottage, In all Professions, for the benefit of both sexes. Representing, I. A Perspective View of the Court and Courtiers; their Gallantries, Promises, and Entertainments display'd; as Gaming, Intriguing, Balls, Ridotto's and Assemblies. II. City Pride and Luxury; Fraud and Impositions of Vintners, Exchange - Brokers, Discounters, Lottery-Mongers, Insurers, &c. with the Trick practised by a Jew of the Alley on the D-ss of M-lb-b. III. The Foppery of Freemasonry, &c. IV. The Corruption of Magistracy exemplified, in a True Secret History of some Tr-Ing J-st-s, &c. V. Literary Bites; or, The Tricks of Author, Printers and Booksellers: with the Trials of many Criminals in Elysium, &c. VI. The two Temples of True and False Fame; the Pretensions of many Writers; with the Remarkable Receptions of Mr. Pope and Dr. Young. Vii. Fops, Epicures, &c. justly ridicul'd; and the notorious Impositions of Lawyers, Physicians, and Apothecaries detected. Viii. Fornication no Sin; or, Adultery a la Mode, defended in the Case of a First - Rate Keeper and a New-Made C-nt-Ess, &c. IX. A Sketch of the Last Judgment, whereat strict Justice is administred, and many Offenders now first brought to Light. By O. Sedgewick, Gent. ...
Sedgewick, O.Date: 1742- Books
Married life in the Middle Ages, 900-1300 / Elisabeth Van Houts.
Van Houts, Elisabeth M. C.Date: 2019- Books
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Useful hints to those who make the tour of France, in a series of letters written from that Kingdom by Philip Thickness, Esq. These letters contain some account of the interior police of that kingdom in general, and of Paris in particular.
Thicknesse, Philip, 1719-1792.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]- Books
Medicina popolare in Calabria : a Mottafollone nell'Ottocento ci si curava così... / Romeo Basile.
Basile, Romeo, 1954-Date: luglio 2015- Books
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Letters on the English nation: by Batista Angeloni, a Jesuit, who resided many years in London. Translated from the original Italian, by the author of The marriage act a novel. ...
Shebbeare, John, 1709-1788.Date: printed in the year M DCC LV. [1755]- Books
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Observations on the manners, government, and policy of the Greeks. Translated from the French of the learned Abbé Mably. With notes and illustrations by Mr. Chamberland.
Mably, Gabriel Bonnot de, 1709-1785.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIV. [1784]- Books
Memory and commemoration in medieval culture / edited by Elma Brenner, Meredith Cohen, Mary Franklin-Brown.
Date: [2013]- Books
Social sauna : bathing & wellbeing / Jane Withers & Ria Hawthorn ; edited by Jane Withers Studio.
Date: [2023]- Books
Queer city : gay London from the Romans to the present day / Peter Ackroyd.
Ackroyd, Peter, 1949-Date: 2017- Books
Death in Berlin : from Weimar to divided Germany / Monica Black, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Black, Monica, 1968-Date: 2010- Books
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Letters from France; containing a great variety of original information concerning the most important events that have occurred in that country in the years 1790, 1791, 1792, and 1793. By Helen Maria Williams. To which are annexed, The Correspondence of Dumourier with Pache, the War Minister, and with the Commissaries. - Letters of Bournonville, Miranda, Valence, &c. &c. ...
Williams, Helen Maria, 1762-1827.Date: 1794- Books
The English breakfast : the biography of a national meal, with recipes / Kaori O'Connor.
O'Connor, Kaori.Date: 2013- Books
Oriori : a Māori child is born - from conception to birth / Robyn Kahukiwa, paintings, Roma Potiki, poems ; introduction by Witi ihimaera, lullaby by Keri Kaa.
Kahukiwa, RobynDate: 1999- Books
Mr Loverman / Bernardine Evaristo.
Evaristo, Bernardine, 1959-Date: 2020- Books
The fires of lust : sex in the Middle Ages / Katherine Harvey.
Harvey, KatherineDate: 2021- Books
Red Prometheus : engineering and dictatorship in East Germany, 1945-1990 / Dolores L. Augustine.
Augustine, Dolores L.Date: [2007]- Books
Stay with me / A̦ỳobámi Adébá̦ỳo.
Adebayo, Ayobami, 1988-Date: 2017- Books
Queer St Ives and other stories / Ian Massey.
Massey, Ian (Art historian)Date: 2022- Books
England : a play for galleries / by Tim Crouch.
Crouch, Tim, 1964-Date: 2007- Books
The Tudor kitchen : what the Tudors ate & drank / Terry Breverton.
Breverton, Terry, 1946-Date: [2015]- Books
Children of wrath : possession, prophecy and the young in early modern England / by Anna French.
French, AnnaDate: [2015]- Books
Mr Foote's other leg / Ian Kelly ; introduced by the author.
Kelly, Ian, 1966-Date: [2015]- Books
How to be a Renaissance woman : the untold history of beauty & female creativity / Jill Burke.
Burke, Jill, 1971-Date: 2023