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Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls

ByMarlene Wagman-Geller

1 Reader

#2

Madame de Pompadour: A Life

ByÉvelyne Lever,Catherine Temerson(Translator)

2000 • 2 Readers • 310 pages • 3

#3

#1 of 2 in Belle Epoque Paris

Dawn of the Belle Epoque

ByMary McAuliffe

2011 • 2 Readers • 400 pages • 5

#4

The Girl Who Loved Camellias: The Life and Legend of Marie Duplessis

ByJulie Kavanagh

2013 • 4 Readers • 321 pages • 4

#5

#17 of 18 in Les Rougon-Macquart

ByÉmile Zola,Gerhard Krüger(Translator)

189 • 41 Readers • 473 pages • 3.6

#6

Mistresses: True Stories of Seduction Power and Ambition

ByLeigh Eduardo

2005 • 1 Reader • 340 pages

#7

Grandes Horizontales: The Lives and Legends of Four Nineteenth-Century Courtesans

ByVirginia Rounding

2003 • 4 Readers • 352 pages

#8

The Courtesans: The Demi-Monde in Nineteenth-Century France

ByJoanna Richardson

1968 • 1 Reader • 176 pages

#9

ByKierstin Bridger

2016 • 1 Reader • 104 pages

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The Pearl From Plymouth: The first authentic biography of Cora Pearl

1950 • 1 Reader • 176 pages

#11

The Memoirs of Cora Pearl: The Erotic Reminiscences of a Flamboyant 19th Century Coutesan

ByWilliam Blatchford

1983 • 1 Reader • 186 pages

#12

Memoirs of a Courtesan in Nineteenth-century Paris

Bycomtesse Cäleste Vänard de Chabrillan

2001 • 358 pages

#13

The Belle Époque

ByDominique Kalifa

2021 • 1 Reader • 264 pages

#14

ByArthur H. Lewis

1968 • 1 Reader • 243 pages

#15

La Belle Otero: The Last Great Courtesan

ByCharles Castle

1981 • 1 Reader • 192 pages

#16

My Blue Notebooks: The Intimate Journal of Paris's Most Beautiful and Notorious Courtesan

ByLiane de Pougy

1977 • 1 Reader • 288 pages

#17

ByKatie Hickman

2003 • 4 Readers • 384 pages

#18

In the Company of the Courtesan

2006 • 12 Readers • 368 pages • 3.5

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The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice

ByMargaret F. Rosenthal

1992 • 2 Readers • 408 pages • 3

#20

Madame de Pompadour

ByNancy Mitford

1954 • 6 Readers • 312 pages

#21

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Les Cocottes: Reines du Paris 1900

ByCatherine Guigon

1 Reader

#22

Kitty Fisher: The First Female Celebrity

2022 • 1 Reader • 192 pages

#23

The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Chicago Series

Poems and Selected Letters

ByVeronica Franco

1998 • 1 Reader • 326 pages

#24

Veronica Franco in Dialogue

ByMarilyn Migiel

2022 • 1 Reader • 224 pages

#25

Women Poets of the Italian Renaissance: Courtly Ladies & Courtesans

ByMary Prentice Lillie(Translator)

1997 • 1 Reader • 267 pages

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Eros In La Belle Epoque

ByPatrick Waldberg

1969 • 1 Reader • 191 pages

#27

Excessives ! Destins de femmes incroyables au XIXe siècle

2019 • 1 Reader • 254 pages

#28

Lives of the Courtesans: Portraits of the Renaissance

1987 • 1 Reader • 224 pages

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Dialogues of the Courtesans

ByLucian of Samosata,Charles T. Cullen

165 • 1 Reader • 152 pages

#30

The Courtesan's Arts: Cross-Cultural PerspectivesIncludes Companion Website

ByBonnie Gordon

2006 • 1 Reader

#31

Women of the Pleasure Quarters: The Secret History of the Geisha

ByLesley Downer

2000 • 3 Readers • 261 pages