Harriss List Of Covent Garden Ladies 1788

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 : Anonymous
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9780244901608
Total Pages : 88 pages
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Download or read book Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies 1788 written by Anonymous and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published annually from 1757 to 1795, Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies was a notorious directory of prostitutes working in London at a time when it is claimed one in five women made a living from selling sex. The descriptions for each lady generally include the address she can be found and a description of her attributes along with her expected remuneration. Although usually complimentary some of the descriptions are critical of bad habits or occasionally derisory. The directories were published anonymously, but it is thought that the original lists were written by Samuel Derrick a Dublin born ""hack"" writer, although they continued after his death in 1769. Only nine editions are known to have survived 1761, 1764, 1773, 1774, 1779, 1788, 1789, 1790 and 1793. The 2017 drama Harlots opens with one of the lead characters returning to a brothel with a copy of the list from which many of the characters were drawn.

Author : Rudolph Ackermann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
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Download or read book Microcosm of London written by Rudolph Ackermann and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Harris
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 133 pages
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Download or read book Harris's List of Covent-Garden Ladies written by Harris and published by . This book was released on 1788 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lucy Inglis
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0670920150
Total Pages : 352 pages
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Download or read book Georgian London written by Lucy Inglis and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Georgian London: Into the Streets, Lucy Inglis takes readers on a tour of London's most formative age - the age of love, sex, intellect, art, great ambition and fantastic ruin. Travel back to the Georgian years, a time that changed expectations of what life could be. Peek into the gilded drawing rooms of the aristocracy, walk down the quiet avenues of the new middle class, and crouch in the damp doorways of the poor. But watch your wallet - tourists make perfect prey for the thriving community of hawkers, prostitutes and scavengers. Visit the madhouses of Hackney, the workshops of Soho and the mean streets of Cheapside. Have a coffee in the city, check the stock exchange, and pop into St Paul's to see progress on the new dome. This book is about the Georgians who called London their home, from dukes and artists to rent boys and hot air balloonists meeting dog-nappers and life-models along the way. It investigates the legacies they left us in architecture and art, science and society, and shows the making of the capital millions know and love today. 'Read and be amazed by a city you thought you knew' Jonathan Foyle, World Monuments Fund 'Jam-packed with unusual insights and facts. A great read from a talented new historian' Independent 'Pacy, superbly researched. The real sparkle lies in its relentless cavalcade of insightful anecdotes . . . There's much to treasure here' Londonist 'Inglis has a good ear for the outlandish, the farcical, the bizarre and the macabre. A wonderful popular history of Hanoverian London' London Historians In 2009 Lucy Inglis began blogging on the lesser-known aspects of London during the Eighteenth Century - including food, immigration and sex- at GeorgianLondon.com. She lives in London with her husband. Georgian London is her first book.

Author : Thomas active 1759-1775 Bridges
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 451 pages
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Download or read book A Burlesque Translation of Homer written by Thomas active 1759-1775 Bridges and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-12 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Burlesque Translation of Homer by Thomas Bridges offers a humorous and light-hearted take on the classic works of Homer. Bridges creatively reimagines the epic tales, infusing them with wit and satire. This unique rendition is sure to entertain both fans of the original texts and those new to Homer's works. It's a delightful blend of classic literature and comedic brilliance.

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'

Author : Jan Bondeson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812235760
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The London Monster written by Jan Bondeson and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century before Jack the Ripper there was the London Monster, whose knife attacks on women caused unprecedented alarm, terror, and uproar. Through chance combined with vigilante effort, a young Welshman, Rhynwick Williams, was arrested as the Monster and committed to prison after a sensational trial at the Old Bailey. However, doubts about Williams' guilt persisted, and some writers asserted that there never was a Monster at all. Over 200 years later, Bondeson (author of A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities and The Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History) unearthed new clues to this fascinating case, which lies somewhere between fact and urban legend. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Pierce Egan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
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Download or read book Life in London written by Pierce Egan and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: