New Mapping London's 18Th Century Prostitutes


Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies was an annual 18th century directory of London prostitutes. The directory non solely provided the addresses too rates of London's prostitutes it likewise included descriptions of their physical appearance too sexual specialities.
Romantic London has mapped the 93 entries inward the 1788 edition of the directory. Mapping Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies (1788) plots the addresses of the 93 entries on summit of the vintage Horwood's Plan of London (1792-9). Select a mark on the map too you lot tin read the 'lewd too often misogynistic' job organization human relationship given inward the directory.

As Romantic London points out the directory romanticizes prostitution 'while largely silencing the women involved ... (and) ... fails to job organization human relationship for the suffering too exploitation of those whose histories it affects to encompass'.

Romantic London has likewise used the vintage map of Horwood's Plan of London every bit the backdrop for mapping a pose out of other 18th century London texts. This includes Fore's Guide to London, a guide to to a greater extent than or less of 18th century London's around of import buildings, too Modern London, an 1804 guide to the city.
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