Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies write by Hallie Rubenhold. This book was released on 2012. Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "If you ever wondered what Jane Austen's Mr Darcy and his 'fellows' got up to on their numerous trips to London, here is the book they would certainly have carried around ... HARRIS'S LIST OF COVENT GARDEN LADIES was a bestseller of the Eighteenth Century, shifting 250,000 copoies in an age before mass consumerism. An annual 'guide book', and published at Christmas time, it detailed the names, attributes and 'specialities' of the capital's prostitutes. During its heyday (1759 -95) HARRIS'S LIST was the essential accessory for any serious gentleman of pleasure. Hallie Rubenhold has collected the funniest, rudest and most bizarre entries penned by Jack Harris, Pimp-General-of-all-England' into this mischievous little book."
The Covent Garden Ladies
The Covent Garden Ladies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Covent Garden Ladies write by Hallie Rubenhold. This book was released on 2012-11-08. The Covent Garden Ladies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling and prizewinning author of THE FIVE 'A fascinating expose of the seamy side of eighteenth century life' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'Rubenhold's pages practically reek with smelly, pox-ridden Georgian Soho' GUARDIAN ---------- In 1757, a down-and-out Irish poet, the head waiter at the Shakespear's Head Tavern in Covent Garden, and a celebrated London courtesan became bound together by the publication of a little book: Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies. This salacious work - detailing the names and 'specialities' of the capital's sex-workers- became one of the eighteenth century's most scandalous bestsellers. Yet beyond its titillating passages lies a glimpse into the lives of those who lived and died by its profits - a tragicomic opera of the Georgian era, motivated by poverty, passionate love, aspiration and shame. In this modern and visceral narrative, historian Hallie Rubenhold reveals the story behind Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies, and the legion of ordinary women whose lives in the sex trade history has chosen to ignore. ______ 'Scrupulously researched' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Crackles with drama and tension' GUARDIAN 'Compelling and ingenious' INDEPENDENT WHAT READERS ARE SAYING: *****'Brilliant. Full of intelligent insight which brings this period to vibrant life' *****'A wonderful insight into sheer survival of women during this period' *****'A fascinating, breath-taking journey back in time'
The Covent Garden Ladies
The Covent Garden Ladies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Covent Garden Ladies write by Hallie Rubenhold. This book was released on 2006. The Covent Garden Ladies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The history of the scandalous 18th-century bestseller, 'Harris' List', an infamous guidebook of prostitutes which detailed addresses, physical characteristics and 'specialities' and sold over 250,000 copies over 20 years.
Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies Or Man of Pleasure's Kalendar for the Year, 1788
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Harris's List of Covent-Garden Ladies
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