List Of Covent Garden Ladies
Each lady is described extremely politely respectfully there is little to offend even the most sensitive reader.
List of covent garden ladies. The map below locates the ninety three entries from harriss list of covent garden ladies. Harriss list of covent garden ladies gives us information on many of the prostitutes working in london at the time. Each imprint generally listed more than 120 prostitutes at work in and around covent garden and the west end giving their address ages and chief attributes. Harriss list of covent garden ladies published from 1757 to 1795 was an annual directory of prostitutes then working in georgian london.
Harriss list of covent garden ladies was the yellow pages of prostitution in the 18th century. A small pocketbook it was printed and published in covent garden and sold for two shillings and sixpence. Harriss list of covent garden ladies was published yearly between 1757 and 1795 and acted as a concise almanac of prostitutes available for hire in london. A contemporary report of 1791 estimates its circulation at about 8000 copies annually.
The debauched directory featured the name of call girls in the area along with decidedly explicit. H arriss list of covent garden ladies published from 1757 to 1795 was an annual directory of prostitutes then working in georgian londona small pocketbook it was printed and published in covent garden and sold for two shillings and sixpence.