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The Covent Garden Ladies
- Author
- Hallie Rubenhold
- Narrator
- Lucy Rayner
- Publisher
- Highbridge Company
- Publish Date
- 29 October 2019
- Run Time
- 11 hours 46 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- Hallie Rubenhold
- Narrator
- Lucy Rayner
- Duration
- 11 hours 46 minutes
- Release Date
- 29 October 2019
- ISBN
- 9781684575060
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Highbridge Company
- Genre
- History, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women and girls, Society and culture: general, Sex and sexuality, social aspects
Synopsis
The Covent Garden Ladies tells the story of Samuel Derrick, Jack Harris, and Charlotte Hayes, whose complicated and colorful lives were brought together by the publication of Harris's List, an infamous guidebook of prostitutes which detailed addresses, physical characteristics, and "specialties." The true history of the book is a tragicomedy motivated by poverty, passionate love, aspiration, and shame. Its telling plunges the listener down the dark alleys of eighteenth-century London's underworld, a realm populated by tavern owners, pimps, punters, card sharps, and of course, a colorful range of prostitutes and brothel-keepers.
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