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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]
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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 ...
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He is thought to have been the original compiler of Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies, an annual directory of London prostitutes beginning in 1760. [3] [4] Two years after the death of Beau Nash in 1761, Derrick was appointed master of the ceremonies at Bath.
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