Sources
Here is a list of sources I’ve drawn from / felt would further understanding of the topic of ‘sex and scandal’. I hope that something here might be of interest to you my dear reader! (I have also separated them into topics for ease.)
Sources and further reading:
General Georgians:
Amanda Capern, The Historical Study of Women: England 1500-1700 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
Amanda Vickery, The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England (Yale University Press, 1998)
Anne Laurence, Women in England 1500-1760: A Social History (Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2005 edition)
Anthony Fletcher, Gender, Sex and Subordination in England, 1500-1800 (Yale University Press, 1995).
Bridget Hill, Eighteenth-Century Women: An Anthology (Allen & Unwin, 1984)
Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus (eds), Women’s History: Britain, 1700-1850. An Introduction (Routledge, 2005)
Joanne Bailey, Unquiet Lives: Marriage and Marriage Breakdown in England, 1660-1800 (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
Kristine Hughes,. Everyday Life in Regency and Victorian England: From 1811–1901. Writer's Digest Books.
Laura Gowing, Gender Relations in Early Modern England (Routledge, 2012)
Laura Gowing, Gender Relations in Early Modern England (Pearson Seminar Studies, 2012)
Patricia Crawford and Laura Gowing, Women's Worlds in Seventeenth Century England: A Sourcebook (Routledge, 1999).
Robert Shoemaker, Gender in English Society, 1650-1850 (Longman, 1998).
Stella Margetson. Regency London, (New York: Prawger Publishers, Inc, 1975).
Vivien Jones, Women in the Eighteenth Century: Constructions of Femininity (Routledge, 1990).
Harlots themed reading:
A.Channing Downs. ‘Inigo Jones's Covent Garden: The First Seventy-Five Years’, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 26, No. 1 (Mar., 1967), pp. 8-33.
C. Carlton, Royal Mistresses (Routledge, 1993)
Elizabeth Campbell Denlinger, ‘The Garment and the Man: Masculine Desire in Harris's List of Covent-Garden Ladies, 1764-1793’, Journal of the History of Sexuality, 11, 3, (2002), pp.357-394.
Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution (Penguin, 2012).
Hallie Rubenhold, The Covent Garden Ladies (Tempus, 2005).
Julie Peakman, Mighty Lewd Books: The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth-Century England (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).
Marjean D Purinton, ‘The City as Portal: Late Georgian Women on the Stage and in the Public Sphere’, The Wordsworth Circle, 41.3 (2010), 171–73.
Mary Clayton, ‘The Life and Crimes of Charlotte Walker, Prostitute and Pickpocket’, The London Journal, 33.1, 2008, pp.3-19.
Tony Henderson, Disorderly Women in Eighteenth Century London: Prostitution and Control in the Metropolis 1730-1830 (Pearson Education Limited, 1999).
Bridgerton themed reading:
Hannah Greig, The Beau Monde: Fashionable Society in Georgian ( Oxford University Press, 2013).
Ingrid H. Tague, Women of Quality: Accepting and Contesting Ideals of Femininity in England, 1690-1760 (Boydell Press, 2002).
Jennifer Kloester. Georgette Heyer's Regency World. (William Heinemann, 2005).Linda Pollock, ‘Teach her to live under obedience’: the making of women in the upper ranks of early modern England’, Continuity and Change, 4, (1989) pp. 231-258.
John Gregory, A Father's Legacy to his Daughters (London, 1774); 1803 edition available at https://archive.org/details/fatherslegacytoh00greg.
Marlene.LeGates, 'The cult of womanhood in eighteenth-century thought', Eighteenth-Century Studies, 10 (1976).
Nancy Bilyeau, Bridgerton, Lady Whistledown, and the Secret History of High-Society Gossip (2021) <https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a34908967/bridgerton-lady-whistledown-gossip-scandal-sheets-history/ .> [accessed 10 June 2021].
Nicola Phillips, Women in Business, 1700-1850 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2001)
Paul Bunyan Anderson, ‘The History and Authorship of Mrs. Crackenthorpe's ‘Female Tatler.’ Modern Philology, vol. 28, no. 3, (1931,) pp. 354–360.
Sally Holloway, The Game of Love in Georgian England: Courtship, Emotions, and Material Culture (Oxford University Press, 2019).
Venetia Murray, High Society: A social History of the Regency Period, 1788–1830. (Viking, 1998).
Miscellaneous:
Alina Field, 10 Facts about Marriage and Divorce in Historical England (2014) <https://alinakfield.com/10-facts-about-marriage-and-divorce-in-historical-england/ > [accessed 23 June 2021].
Amanda-Rae Prescott, The Real History Behind Bridgerton (2020) <https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/bridgerton-the-real-history-of-the-netflix-period-romance/ > [accessed 2 August 2021].
Eve Tavor Bannet, ‘The Marriage Act of 1753: "A Most Cruel Law for the Fair Sex"’, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 30, 3 (1997), pp. 233-54.
John Tosh, The Pursuit of History (Taylor and Francis, 2013).
Louise Allen, Banns or Licence? Ways To Marry in Georgian England (2014) <https://janeaustenslondon.com/2014/05/07/banns-or-licence-ways-to-marry-in-georgian-england/> [accessed 4 August 2021].
Peggy Noonan, The Lies of ‘The Crown’ and ‘The Post’ (2017) <https://peggynoonan.com/the-lies-of-the-crown-and-the-post/> [accessed 16 March 2018].
R. Brown, ‘The Rise and Fall of the Fleet Marriages’ in R.B. Outhwaite (ed.), Marriage and Society: Studies in the social history of marriage (Europa, 1981).
S Goldsmith, Masculinity and Danger on the Eighteenth-Century Grand Tour (New Historical Perspectives). (University of London, 2020).
UK Parliament, The law of marriage (2021) <https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/private-lives/relationships/overview/lawofmarriage-/> [accessed 3 August 2021].