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Harris's List of the Covent Garden Ladies by Hallie Rubenhold (Hardcover, 2012)
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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherTransWorld LTD
ISBN-139780857521422
eBay Product ID (ePID)128866085
Product Key Features
Book TitleHarris's List of the Covent Garden Ladies
AuthorHallie Rubenhold
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicHistory
Publication Year2012
TypeTextbook
Number of Pages160 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height178mm
Item Width134mm
Item Weight206g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorHallie Rubenhold
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 11 Oct, 2016
Naughty but nice
Imagine this as a sort of Trip Adviser for ladies of the night. Each of the women are given a brief write up, a bit of back story and their price. Sometimes the review is accompanied by a brief poem extolling the "virtues" of the subject. It struck me that, rather like race horses, the condition of their teeth is often mentioned, an indication of how dodgy the dentition of their contemporaries must have been. An amusing insight into a rather sordid world.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
