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Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies, published from 1760 to 1794, [1] was an annual directory of prostitutes then working in Georgian London. A small pocketbook, it was printed and published in Covent Garden, and sold for two shillings and sixpence. A contemporary report of 1791 estimates its circulation at about 8,000 copies annually.
Although the precise details of Hayes's early life are unknown, it is believed she was born in Genoa [4] (as cited in the 1761 edition of Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies) [2] to the courtesan and brothel keeper, Elizabeth Ward. [1] In her early career as a prostitute, she was known as Charlotte Ward. [4]
Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies, published from 1757 to 1795, was an annual directory of prostitutes working in and around Covent Garden, London. It sold for two shillings and sixpence, and in 1791 had an estimated circulation of around 8,000 copies. Each edition contains entries describing the physical appearance and sexual specialities ...
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Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies, published from 1757 to 1795, was an annual directory of prostitutes working in and around Covent Garden, London. It sold for two shillings and sixpence, and in 1791 had an estimated circulation of around 8,000 copies. Each edition contains entries describing the physical appearance and sexual specialities ...
60 per cent of the club’s 1,500 members reportedly answered in favour of the change following a two-hour debate at a venue in Covent Garden. Women were previously only allowed to enter the club ...
Four years ago, a Zoom meeting to build support for Kamala Harris as the Democratic vice presidential nominee attracted just 90 participants. On Sunday night, an estimated 90,000 Black women and ...
In 2005, she wrote an accessible history of Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies and its author in her book The Covent Garden Ladies: Pimp General Jack and the Extraordinary Story of Harris's List, and, in 2008, she published The Harlot's Handbook: Harris's List, a selection of the directories' "funniest, rudest and most surreal entries".