SOURCE: McCalman, Iain. “Grub Street Jacks: Obscene Populism and Pornography.” In Radical Underworld: Prophets, Revolutionaries and Pornographers in London, 1795-1840, pp. 204-31. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
In the following excerpt, McCalman explores the production of pornography, some of it associated with radical politics, centered on Holywell Street in London.
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