Hustlers, Harlots, and Heroes · A Regency and Steampunk Field Guide by Ball, Krista D. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Table of Contents Acknowledgements Author’s Note Introduction

The Lay of the Land

Things You Need to Know

What’s a Georgian? Money Matters: What’s a d?

Chapter 1: How Poor is Poor?

Introducing Mark and Martha Show Me the Money Does This Apartment Have Free Internet? Please, Sir, I Want Some More

Chapter 2: Ladies and Children First

The Female Breadwinner Handy at Home Babies Make Great Employees Child Labour Education Making Ends Meet Um, Why Are You Touching Me?

Chapter 3: What’s for Supper?

How Much Did They Need? Breaking One’s Fast Luncheon for the Professional At the End of the Day Hunger, Famines, and the Potato Food in the Workhouse Food in Prison Pulling it All Together

Chapter 4: Charity Begins Anywhere but Here

State-Run Charity & Poor Law Individual Charity Soup Kitchens

Chapter 5: Respectable Professionals

The Paper Pushers The Legal Eagles Take This & Call Me in the Morning Mad Scientists and Madder Professors Holy Men For King/Queen and Country

Chapter 6: The View from Upstairs

Upstairs, Downstairs, Middlestairs Women’s Work Manly Man Jobs It’s Pay Day!

Chapter 7: Below Decks

A Woman’s Place He’s Just the Son of Mr. Darcy’s Steward The Scourge of Servants: Company Scrubbing Floors and More Odds and Ends Pay the Bills I Hate My Job

Chapter 8: I’m a Business Man

Shopping is a Lady’s Best Friend Dust, Dirt, and Dung Randomly Awesome Jobs Reuse, Repurpose, Recycle Street-Performers Working With Disabilities Legal Shmegal Getting By

Chapter 9: Abolition and the Road to Self-Emancipation

How Many Blacks Were in Britain? Slavery: The Crash Course

Everybody wants a little slave boy All that’s sweet

Somerset Case (1771-1772) OK, But What Does This All Mean? Okay, So How Did They Free Themselves Before They Were Freed? Writing Authentically

Chapter 10: Whores, Wenches, and Women

Sin City The Ladies of Covent Garden The Contagious Diseases Acts Homosexuality, Prostitution, and the Law

Mother Clap Trials Boulton and Park Trial Cleveland Street Scandal

Homosexual Cures That Burning Feeling Famous Players

Chapter 11: Cleanliness Leads To Drunkenness

That’s Icky Mother’s Ruin Safe Sex Is Not So Safe In the Family Way What About Unwelcomed Pregnancy? Unwanted Children Hospitals

Chapter 12: Point A to Point B and Inventions in Between

Textiles Agriculture Getting Around Luddites Don’t Use Smartphones

And So It Ends Glossary of Common Terms Timeline of Events Timeline of Events Endnotes Select Bibliography Author Biography