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William Acton (1813–1875) was a British medical doctor and book writer. He was known for his books on masturbation. Biography. Acton was a native of Shillingstone and he enrolled as a resident apprentice at St Bartholomew's Hospital.
1 de ene. de 2000 · This article examines the life and work of William Acton, a Victorian physician and author of a controversial book on human sexuality. It explores the medical and professional context of his research and its impact on the history of sexuality.
Prostitution, Considered in Its Moral, Social, and Sanitary Aspects, in London and Other Large Cities and Garrison Towns, with Proposals for the Mitigation and Prevention of Its Attendant Evils is an 1857 book by William Acton about prostitution in big cities like London and Paris.
William Acton (doctor) (1813–1875), British doctor and writer. Sir William Acton, 1st Baronet (1570–1651), English merchant and Royalist. William Acton, warden of the Marshalsea prison, London, in the 1720s. William Acton (painter) (1906–1945), Anglo-Italian painter.
1 de ene. de 2000 · William Acton is now more widely known as a doctor specializing in sexual medicine than he ever was during his lifetime and any other time prior to the 1960s.
How did Hardy's poem "The Ruined Maid" respond to the social evils exposed by William Acton's book Prostitution in London? The article analyzes the irony and moral outlook of the poem against the historical context of the Contagious Diseases Act and the sexual culture of Victorian London.
William Acton was the short lived younger brother of Sir Harold Acton, art historian and aesthete. The Actons had been raised by their parents at La Pietra, a villa outside Florence, where their neighbours included the Sitwell family, and Gerald, Lord Berners who was a friend of Salvador Dali.
