{"product_id":"9781782067764-peg-plunkett","title":"Peg Plunkett","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMemoirs of a Whore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe extraordinary life of the Georgian era's most famous whore\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOf 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\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eSo 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\u003ci\u003e Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 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 \u003ci\u003emadame\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ePeg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore\u003c\/i\u003e, Julie Peakman brings her subject and the world through which she moved to glorious, bawdy life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56451558867318,"sku":"9781782067764","price":14.02,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_35755714.jpg?v=1760462990","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781782067764-peg-plunkett","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}