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I really enjoyed Hallie Rubenholds 'The Five' and having just discoveree Harlotts on SBS, I was excited to learn she had also written a book based on Harris's list. Between 1757 to 1795 Samuel Carrick, a bankrupt poet, John Harrison, a pimp, and Charlotte Ward, a life long harlott, pooled their local knowledge to create a listing of the lady of Covent Gardens. Rubenhold has done a great deal of research and it was an interesting read. It does make me sad though that the experiences of these women are largely see through the lenses of the men who wrote and frequented their services. How much of history has been lost because women weren't able to write their stories and men didn't think they had anything to add to the world.