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The Girl Who Loved Camellias: The Life and Legend of Marie Duplessis
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The Mistress of Paris
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3.73 avg rating — 702 ratings
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Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century
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3.74 avg rating — 1,135 ratings
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The Courtesans: The Demi-Monde in Nineteenth-Century France
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3.53 avg rating — 192 ratings
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The Courtesan’s Revenge
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3.57 avg rating — 120 ratings
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Nell Gwyn: Mistress to a King
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3.85 avg rating — 585 ratings
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The Serpent and the Moon: Two Rivals for the Love of a Renaissance King
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3.76 avg rating — 522 ratings
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Murder of a Medici Princess
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3.94 avg rating — 1,346 ratings
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Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England
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3.77 avg rating — 7,911 ratings
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England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton
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3.90 avg rating — 1,074 ratings
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The Kings' Mistresses: The Liberated Lives of Marie Mancini, Princess Colonna, and Her Sister Hortense, Duchess Mazarin
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3.78 avg rating — 544 ratings
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Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster
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3.86 avg rating — 5,807 ratings
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Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France
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3.89 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
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3.87 avg rating — 8,064 ratings
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Privilege and Scandal: The Remarkable Life of Harriet Spencer, Sister of Georgiana
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3.89 avg rating — 652 ratings
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Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics
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3.89 avg rating — 5,206 ratings
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Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge
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3.70 avg rating — 8,337 ratings
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Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul
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3.63 avg rating — 13,198 ratings
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Ungrateful Daughters: The Stuart Princesses Who Stole Their Father's Crown
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3.85 avg rating — 640 ratings
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The Unruly Queen: The Life of Queen Caroline
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3.58 avg rating — 274 ratings
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City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920
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3.92 avg rating — 228 ratings
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Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore
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4.18 avg rating — 1,490 ratings
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Mistress of the Elgin Marbles: A Biography of Mary Nisbet, Countess of Elgin – A Vibrant Narrative from Her Own Letters About Diplomacy, Napoleon, and Scandal
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3.72 avg rating — 399 ratings
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The Lady in Red: An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal, and Divorce
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3.78 avg rating — 1,371 ratings
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Wedlock
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3.93 avg rating — 1,877 ratings
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The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice
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3.85 avg rating — 442 ratings
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Maria Fitzherbert: The Secret Wife of George IV
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3.32 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Lola Montez: A Life
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3.79 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Queen of the Courtesans: Fanny Murray
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3.77 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Perdita: The Literary, Theatrical, Scandalous Life of Mary Robinson
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3.78 avg rating — 673 ratings
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The Tudor Brandons: Mary And Charles - Henry VIII's Nearest & Dearest
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3.64 avg rating — 260 ratings
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Passionate Minds: Emilie du Chatelet, Voltaire, and the Great Love Affair of the Enlightenment
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4.10 avg rating — 1,132 ratings
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The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici
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4.07 avg rating — 2,884 ratings
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Sarah Churchill: Duchess of Marlborough: The Queen's Favourite
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3.63 avg rating — 593 ratings
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Love, Madness, and Scandal: The Life of Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck
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3.31 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Court Lady and Country Wife: Two Noble Sisters in Seventeenth-Century England
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3.68 avg rating — 213 ratings
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Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings
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3.77 avg rating — 10,500 ratings
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Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
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3.45 avg rating — 510 ratings
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King's Mistress: The True and Scandalous Story of the Woman Who Stole the Heart of George I
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3.53 avg rating — 62 ratings
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The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues
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3.52 avg rating — 1,268 ratings
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