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Women and gambling |
Monday 8 October 2001 |
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The tax on betting was removed this weekend and the result could be that more of us will nip down to the bookies for a flutter.
And only last week, the internet gambling operation Aspinalls announced that they were specifically targeting women who apparently are much more likely to place bets online.
Marya Burgess has been investigating the history of women and gambling.
She spoke to Dr Leya Landau, Dr Roger Munting and Amanda Foreman, the biographer of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was a legendary compulsive gambler.
(Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, Flamingo; ISBN: 0006550169, 拢8.99).
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