Contributor(s): Author: Louise Allen From Corinthians to Hell-Born Babes - The Regency underworld revealed Francis Grose\'s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue and Later Versions and editions contain hundreds of words and phrases that take us into a colourful, violent and alien late Georgian and Regency world.
Here we encounter criminals, gamesters, sportsmen, gentlemen and prostitutes as they fight, cheat, thieve, gamble and carouse their way thro.
Contributor(s): Author: Louise Allen From Corinthians to Hell-Born Babes - The Regency underworld revealed Francis Grose\'s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue and Later Versions and editions contain hundreds of words and phrases that take us into a colourful, violent and alien late Georgian and Regency world