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Mrs Grundy. Studies in English Prudery

FRYER, Peter

$25.00

Publisher: New York, London House, 1964. First US edition
Description: pp368, illus. 8vo, hard cover. Very good in sl. sunned, price-clipped dust jacket

This fascinating account of verbal taboos and the consequent euphemisms the English language has produced for parts of the body, sexual activity, and bodily functions, is the first genearally avaiable study of `four-letter words’.

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