| Author | : Adrian Teal |
| File Size | : 50,9 Mb |
| Publisher | : Unbound Publishing |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 02 April 2013 |
| ISBN | : 9781908717764 |
| Pages | : 132 pages |
The Gin Lane Gazette by Adrian Teal Book PDF Summary
Many of us think of the ill-behaved celebrity and the tabloid splash as modern inventions, but the antics of footballers and soap stars are as nothing when set alongside the hell-raising of the 18th century celebs. The Gin Lane Gazette is stuffed with true stories of boozy MPs who settled their political differences with duels in Hyde Park; peers of the realm who sat the unburied corpses of their cherished mistresses at their dinner tables; entertainers who rode horses standing upright in the saddle, while wearing a mask of bees; and famous courtesans who ate 1,000-guinea banknotes stuffed into sandwiches, simply to make a point. Before it was dashed from their lips by the Victorian party-poopers, our Georgian forebears drank deep from the cup of life.