The Girl With The Swansdown Seat
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner.
A lively and irreverent work of social history, The Girl with the Swansdown Seat chronicles the colourful and scandalous underbelly of Victorian-era society, with a particular focus on the intersection of sex, power, and notoriety in 19th-century Britain and Australia. Cyril Pearl, one of Australia's most celebrated journalists and historians, brings his trademark wit and sharp eye to bear on the lives of notorious women, rakes, and social outcasts who defined the era's hidden culture. The book presents a vivid panorama of vice, theatre, and social transgression, drawing on a wealth of period sources to illuminate lives that polite history long chose to ignore. Pearl's writing is brisk, sardonic, and endlessly entertaining, making this a compelling read for anyone interested in the rawer realities of the Victorian age.
Author: Cyril Pearl
Format: Paperback
Published: 1969, Horwitz Australian Library
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner.
A lively and irreverent work of social history, The Girl with the Swansdown Seat chronicles the colourful and scandalous underbelly of Victorian-era society, with a particular focus on the intersection of sex, power, and notoriety in 19th-century Britain and Australia. Cyril Pearl, one of Australia's most celebrated journalists and historians, brings his trademark wit and sharp eye to bear on the lives of notorious women, rakes, and social outcasts who defined the era's hidden culture. The book presents a vivid panorama of vice, theatre, and social transgression, drawing on a wealth of period sources to illuminate lives that polite history long chose to ignore. Pearl's writing is brisk, sardonic, and endlessly entertaining, making this a compelling read for anyone interested in the rawer realities of the Victorian age.