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The Covent Garden Ladies: Pimp General Jack & the Extraordinary Story of Harris' List

✍ Scribed by Rubenhold, Hallie

Publisher: Tempus
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Weight: 919 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 1448153913

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✦ 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' List, an infamous guidebook of prostitutes which detailed addresses, physical characteristics and "specialties." The true history of the book is a tragicomicedy motivated by poverty, passionate love, aspiration, and shame. Its telling plunges the reader down the dark alleys of 18th-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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