"From the rollicking tale of Sally Salisbury to the moralizing narratives of prostitute reform, the texts expertly presented in this timely collection offer renewed incentive to think through the often counter-intuitive histories of sexuality and class in eighteenth-century Britain. These entertaining popular texts raise fundamental questions about canonical works such as Defoe's Roxana or Richardson's Clarissa. The importance of these prose fictions will be apparent to anyone working on the history of the novel or the theatre, and this collection has the potential to alter how a wide range of literary texts are currently taught. Laura Rosenthal's judicious selection of texts and her careful annotation will open up new avenues for debate about the intersection of sex, labour and representation not only in eighteenth-century studies, but also in the analysis of British social history more generally." -- Daniel O'Quinn, University of Guelph