Hot Gossip from Another Century

bluepiano: A scandal that never broke--Munby was lucky that his double life never came to light.

bluepiano: Csath was an accomplished violinist and a doctor. He was also an addict and a compulsive womaniser who availed of his position in a spa to seduce one patient after another, and these journals were kept during that time. (It gets worse, as he later went on to murder his wife.)

nessreader: Theatre critic writes v funny essays about shakespeare disasters.

bluepiano: A flawed book but worth reading for its subject, a dancer well-known in Weimar Germany.

bluepiano: More a matter for gossip than outrage. Interesting take on cross-dressing by a 17th-century abbe.

nessreader: The industrial revolution seen from underneath : a biography full of pity and rage

nessreader: I have 2 biogs of jane digby and both have unnecessary breathless prose : the facts are adventuressy enough. Diehard romantic, serial monogamist, exiled from victorian britain to concubining for a king a brigand then marrying a much younger sheik and drumming up tourist business for his tribe.