Gilfoyle

The historian Timothy J. Gilfoyle has called the years between 1836 and 1871 “the halcyon years of commercialized sex.”

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Says Gilfoyle, “these women did not view prostitution as deviance or sin; rather, they considered it a better alternative to the factory or domestic servitude.”

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

In New York City, according to historian Timothy Gilfoyle, “an affluent, but migratory, class of prostitutes flourished.”

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

I see that this week we were wholly incompetent for NOT getting a conviction in the Barrymore/Lubbock drug fest, as well as being wholly incompetent for GETTING a conviction in the Gilfoyle murderer enquiry.

No More Targets?……. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

Fellow classmates slapped Hoyt on the back and Gilfoyle said, Come on, kid.

Masked Lou Anders 2010

Fellow classmates slapped Hoyt on the back and Gilfoyle said, Come on, kid.

Masked Lou Anders 2010

Had Gilfoyle known what Hoyt planned to do with it, he might have taken it back.

Masked Lou Anders 2010

Had Gilfoyle known what Hoyt planned to do with it, he might have taken it back.

Masked Lou Anders 2010

Gilfoyle skillfully depicts this underworld of poverty and brutality, pluck and luck, against the backdrop of opulent Gilded Age New York.

Five Best 2009

For more on the dandy in the 1840s see Timothy J. Gilfoyle, City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of

Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006