Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies: Sex in the City in Georgian Britain (Revealing History) by Hallie Rubenhold

Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies: Sex in the City in Georgian Britain (Revealing History)

Hallie Rubenhold

158 pages first pub 2005 (view editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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This book is ideal for readers intrigued by the intersection of social history and the clandestine underbelly of 18th-century urban life, offering a scholarly yet vivid exploration of Georgian Britain's hidden sexual economies.

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Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies was a bestseller of the 18th century, selling 250,000 copies in an age before mass consumerism. An annual "guide book," it detailed the names and "specialities" of the capital's prostitutes. During its heyda...

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