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The Novotny papers : 'a bit vulture, a bit eagle' / Lilian Pizzichini.

It is almost impossible to summarise the extraordinary life of Mariella Novotny in a few paragraphs. In 1961 she was an underage hooker engaging in sexual relations with President John F. Kennedy, the most powerful man in the world. She was believed to be part of a vice ring set up by an alleged communist agent who was also a well-known British film producer. Two years later the young 'Monroe lookalike' played a major part in another sex scandal with implications for national security: the Profumo Affair. Then, in 1983, when Novotny was in the process of writing her memoirs, she died in suspicious circumstances. This book brings together the explosive episodes of Novotny's life in order to paint a picture of the woman behind the headlines.
Author: Pizzichini, Lilian, 1965-
Published: Stroud : Amberley Publishing, 2022.
256 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 20 cm

Jubilee Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 920 NOV - Available - 95000000128052

Patron saint of prostitutes : Josephine Butler and the Victorian sex scandal / Helen Mathers.

The 'steel rape' of women is a scandal that's almost forgotten today. In Victorian England, police forces were granted powers to force any woman they suspected of being a 'common prostitute' to undergo compulsory and invasive medical examinations, while women who refused to submit willingly - some as young as 13 - could be arrested and incarcerated. This scandal was exposed by Josephine Butler, an Evangelical campaigner who didn't rest until she'd ended the violation and helped repeal the Act that governed it. She went on to campaign against child prostitution, the trafficking of frightened girls from Britain to Europe, and government-sponsored brothels in India. In addition, she was instrumental in raising the age of consent from 13 to 16. This is the poignant tale of a 19th-century woman who challenged taboos and conventions in order to campaign for the rights of her gender.
Author: Mathers, Helen
Second edition.
Published: Cheltenham : The History Press, 2021.
272 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Jubilee Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 920 BUT - Available - 95000000128125

Peg Plunkett [sound recording] / Julie Peakman.

Revelations and racy anecdotes about the lives of the rich and famous of Dublin and London abound within this book. From 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 madame 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. Julie Peakman brings her subject and the world through which she moved to glorious, bawdy life.
Author: Peakman, Julie, 1957-
Published: Rearsby : Clipper Audio, 2015.
7 CDs (465 min.) : digital, stereo

Portslade Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - UnAbridged Spoken Word CD - Cd Book 306.7409 - AV Item (Set: 30 Dec 2015) - 04334272

Runaway : wild child, working girl, survivor / Emily MacKenzie.

Beaten by her mother and whipped by her stepfather, Emily eventually finds her way into the care system at the age of twelve, and has an abortion after being gang-raped at thirteen. Continuously abused in a sequence of homes, she runs away at sixteen, becomes a prostitute in Soho, and convinces herself she is being punished for killing her baby. But it was never meant to be like that.
Author: MacKenzie, Emily
Published: London : Simon & Schuster, 2013.
272 pages ; 20 cm
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An English madam : the life and work of Cynthia Payne / Paul Bailey.

Author: Bailey, Paul, 1937-
Published: London : Cape, 1982.
x, 166 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., 1 facsim., ports. ; 23 cm.

Jubilee Library - Jubilee Library Store - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 920PAY - Available - 687157800