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Peg Plunkett
- Author
- Julie Peakman
- Narrator
- Sandra Duncan
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Publish Date
- 4 June 2015
- Run Time
- 7 hours 46 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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So emerged the first expose of foot fetishism in the eighteenth-century. Revelations and racy anecdotes about the lives of the rich and famous of Dublin and London abound within Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore.
From a violent domestic background, Peg blitzed her way through balls and masquerades creating scandals and gossip wherever she went, leaving dukes, barristers and lieutenants stranded in her wake. She was the first madame ever to write her memoirs, thereby setting the template for the whore's memoir. She wrote not merely to reveal herself but to expose the shoddy behaviour of others and her account of her life. In Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore, Julie Peakman brings her subject and the world through which she moved to glorious, bawdy life.
(P)2015 WF Howes Ltd
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Endlessly fascinating, informative and insightful
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Details
- Author
- Julie Peakman
- Narrator
- Sandra Duncan
- Duration
- 7 hours 46 minutes
- Release Date
- 4 June 2015
- ISBN
- 9781784292119
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Genre
- Biography: historical, political and military, History and Archaeology
Synopsis
Of picking, washing and cleaning my pretty little toes, which he took great delight in, and in which pleasurable, innocent, and inoffensive pastime he as often spent hours; twas the greatest gratification to him on earth, nor did he (said she) indulge in any other in all the time we spent together, he never was even rude enough to give me a kiss.So emerged the first expose of foot fetishism in the eighteenth-century. Revelations and racy anecdotes about the lives of the rich and famous of Dublin and London abound within Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore.From a violent domestic background, Peg blitzed her way through balls and masquerades creating scandals and gossip wherever she went, leaving dukes, barristers and lieutenants stranded in her wake. She was the first madame ever to write her memoirs, thereby setting the template for the whore's memoir. She wrote not merely to reveal herself but to expose the shoddy behaviour of others and her account of her life. In Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore, Julie Peakman brings her subject and the world through which she moved to glorious, bawdy life.(P)2015 WF Howes Ltd
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