Table of Contents

Introduction: making a mannered metropolis and taming the ‘perpetual fair’
1. ‘London’s Mart’: the crowds and culture of eighteenth–century London
2. ‘Heroick informers’ and London spies: religion, politeness and reforming impulses in late seventeenth and early eighteenth–century London
3. Regulation and resistance: wayward apprentices and other ‘evil disposed persons’ at London’s fairs
4. ‘Dirty Molly’ and ‘the greasier Kate’: The feminine threat to urban order
5. Locating the fair sex at work
6. Clocks, monsters, and drolls: gender, race, nation, and the amusements of London fairs
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Anne Wohlcke is Associate Professor of History at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Reviews

‘Wohlcke’s book provides not only a new history of London’s fairs but also makes a valuable contribution to the historiography of women’s work and the debates on gender and the city. It is a book well worth reading.’
Louise Falcini, The English Historical Review, March 2016
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