Maids traces the history of the maid in erotic literature throughout the last two centuries, but concentrates on the maid's golden age, the 19th century. The Victorian Maid is the stuff of erotic legend and this pert, biddable female has been at the heart of many a male sexual fantasy for almost a century and a half. Maids is divided into loosely chronological image galleries and juicy extracts from novels by authors ranging from well known to obscure or even to shady and anonymous. Likewise the images are by a selection of artists and photographers who vary widely in their treatment of the subject. As well as a wealth of period photography, China Hamilton, Ben Westwood, Eric Wilkins and John DuPrei all have contributed to make Maids the most intriguing, saucy and provocative book ever published on the subject. Contains sexually explicit imagery