";s:4:"text";s:2200:" This is facinating social history. Yet beyond its titillating In The Covent Garden Ladies, Rubenhold explores the story of how the list came into being and the three main personalities behind the famous book; Samuel Derrick (a down and out Irish poet), Charlotte Hayes ( a prostitute and then procuress) and John Harrison, also known as Jack Harris, who lent his name to the project. It is a raucous picture, funny and sad by turns. Buy The Covent Garden Ladies: Pimp General Jack and the Extraordinary Story of Harris' List (Revealing History) First Edition by Hallie Rubenhold (ISBN: 9780752428505) from Amazon's Book Store. Covent Garden: Fair Ladies? The true history of the book is a tragicomicedy motivated by poverty, passionat During its heyday, 1757-1795, Harris's List was the essential accessory for any serious gentleman of pleasure. Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies was a bestseller of the 18th century, selling 250,000 copies in an age before mass consumerism. 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' List, an infamous guidebook of prostitutes which detailed addresses, physical characteristics and "specialties." - See 24,679 traveler reviews, 9,473 candid photos, and great deals for London, UK, at Tripadvisor.
An annual "guide book," it detailed the names and "specialities" of the capital's prostitutes.