Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies was an annual 18th century directory of London prostitutes. The directory non alone provided the addresses as well as rates of London's prostitutes it too included descriptions of their physical appearance as well as 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 meridian of the vintage Horwood's Plan of London (1792-9). Select a marking on the map as well as y'all tin read the 'lewd as well as oft misogynistic' concern human relationship given inward the directory.
As Romantic London points out the directory romanticizes prostitution 'while largely silencing the women involved ... (and) ... fails to concern human relationship for the suffering as well as exploitation of those whose histories it affects to encompass'.
Romantic London has too used the vintage map of Horwood's Plan of London every bit the backdrop for mapping a publish of other 18th century London texts. This includes Fore's Guide to London, a guide to or as well as hence of 18th century London's close of import buildings, as well as Modern London, an 1804 guide to the city.
