Reviews - The Covent Garden Ladies: Pimp General Jack & The Extraordinary Story of Harris' List

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The Covent Garden Ladies: Pimp General Jack & The Extraordinary Story of Harris' List

Hallie Rubenhold

3.65 AVERAGE

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4.0

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4.5

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Thoroughly researched insight into both sides of the sex trade in Covent Garden in the 1700s.

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4.0

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3.75

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The Covent Garden Ladies tells the story of three unusual characters: Samuel Derrick, John Harrison (a.k.a Jack Harris), and Charlotte Hayes, three players in eighteenth century London’s underworld centered around Covent Gardens.

Word Picture

Georgian London
prostitutes and pimps
weaves their stories
sordid salacious scandalous shocking
Changes of morality

Galley of Props, People and Places

Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies

Charlotte Hayes alias Mrs O’Kelly

Samuel Derrick

Dennis O'Kelly common-law husband of Charlotte Hayes

Covent Garden 1720

Grub Street

Connected Links of Interest

Mapping Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies (1788) - Romantic London

Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies (1787 and 1788 editions)

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