by Katie Hickman · Harper Perennial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007113927
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«Courtesans» is Katie Hickman's historical essay on courtesans, published by Harper Perennial in paperback (352 pages, in English).
The book examines how a group of courtesans from the 18th and 19th centuries moved from poverty to power, independence and wealth. Katie Hickman reconstructs the lives of Sophia Baddeley, Elizabeth Armistead, Harriette Wilson, Cora Pearl and Catherine Walters, cultured and influential women who shaped fashion and society from the demi-monde.
The Harper Perennial edition of Courtesans is from 2004; the original text appeared in 2003.
For readers interested in social history, women's biographies and British society of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Katie Hickman is an English novelist, historian and travel writer. She was born in Wellington, New Zealand to the diplomat and author John Kyrle Hickman and Jennifer Olive (Love) Hickman. She is the author of ten books, including two best-selling history books, which between them have sold more than a quarter of a million copies worldwide. Her travel book A Trip to the Light Fantastic was one of The Independent's Books of the Year (1993) and was short-listed for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award (1994). Her fiction works have earned a nomination for the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award and her trilogy of historical novels The Aviary Gate (2008), The Pindar Diamond (2011) and The House at Bishopsgate (2016) have been translated into 20 languages. She is featured in the Oxford University Press guide to women travellers, Wayward Women.
