Harriss List Of Covent Garden Ladies

Author : Hallie Rubenhold
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 085752142X
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies written by Hallie Rubenhold and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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."

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies. or Man of Pleasure's Kalendar for the Year, 1788 written by Anonymous and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-09-18 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies. or Man of Pleasure's Kalendar for the Year, 1788" by Anonymous. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Hallie Rubenhold
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448153913
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Covent Garden Ladies written by Hallie Rubenhold and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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'

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harris's List of Covent-Garden Ladies written by and published by . This book was released on 1787 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hallie Rubenhold
Publisher : Tempus Publishing, Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780752443843
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Harlot's Handbook written by Hallie Rubenhold and published by Tempus Publishing, Limited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Harris's List' was a best-seller of the 18th century shifting 250,000 copies. An annual 'guide book', it detailed the names and 'specialities' of London's prostitutes. Hallie Rubenhold has collected the funniest, rudest and most surreal entries penned by Jack Harris in this book.

Author : Hallie Rubenhold
Publisher : History Press
ISBN 13 : 9780752437392
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Covent Garden Ladies written by Hallie Rubenhold and published by History Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Jack Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harris's List of Covent-Garden Ladies: Or, Man of Pleasure's Kalender, for the Year 1789 written by Jack Harris and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hallie Rubenhold
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 147352475X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scandalous Lady W written by Hallie Rubenhold and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the divorce that scandalised Georgian England... She was a spirited young heiress. He was a handsome baronet with a promising career in government. Their marriage had the makings of a fairy tale but ended as one of the most salacious and highly publicised divorces in history. For over two hundred years the story of Lady Worsley, her vengeful husband, and her lover, George Maurice Bisset, lay forgotten. Now Hallie Rubenhold, in her impeccably researched book, throws open a window to a rarely seen view of Georgian England, one coloured by passion, adventure and the defiance of social convention. The Worsley's story, their struggles and outrageous lifestyle, promises to shock even the modern reader.

Author : Norma Clarke
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674968743
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brothers of the Quill written by Norma Clarke and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oliver Goldsmith arrived in England a penniless Irishman and toiled for years in the anonymity of Grub Street. Norma Clarke tells how this destitute scribbler became one of literary London’s most celebrated authors, transmuting dark truths about the empire into fable and nostalgia whose undertow of Irish indignation remains just barely perceptible.

Author : Rudolph Ackermann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1B/5 ( download)

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