Preventive Intercourse
Michael Mason, 22 October 1992
Love in the Time of Victoria
by Françoise Barret-Ducrocq, translated by John Howe.
Verso, 225 pp., £24.95, August 1992,0 86091 325 2 Show More
by Françoise Barret-Ducrocq, translated by John Howe.
Verso, 225 pp., £24.95, August 1992,
“... reviewed, and justly praised, in the London Review (24 September). A third admirable study is Françoise Barret-Ducrocq’s Love in the Time of Victoria. This book reconstructs from the records of the Coram’s Fields Foundling Hospital the experiences of London lower-middle-class and working-class girls, and their partners, whose liaisons produced ... ”
