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Book Synopsis Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies by : Hallie Rubenhold
Download or read book Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies written by Hallie Rubenhold and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If you ever wondered what Jane Austen's Mr Darcy and his 'fellows' got up to on their numerous trips to London, here is the book they would certainly have carried around ... HARRIS'S LIST OF COVENT GARDEN LADIES was a bestseller of the Eighteenth Century, shifting 250,000 copoies in an age before mass consumerism. An annual 'guide book', and published at Christmas time, it detailed the names, attributes and 'specialities' of the capital's prostitutes. During its heyday (1759 -95) HARRIS'S LIST was the essential accessory for any serious gentleman of pleasure. Hallie Rubenhold has collected the funniest, rudest and most bizarre entries penned by Jack Harris, Pimp-General-of-all-England' into this mischievous little book."
Book Synopsis Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies. or Man of Pleasure's Kalendar for the Year, 1788 by : Anonymous
Download or read book Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies. or Man of Pleasure's Kalendar for the Year, 1788 written by Anonymous and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-09-18 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies. or Man of Pleasure's Kalendar for the Year, 1788" by Anonymous. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Book Synopsis The Covent Garden Ladies by : Hallie Rubenhold
Download or read book The Covent Garden Ladies written by Hallie Rubenhold and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling and prizewinning author of THE FIVE 'A fascinating expose of the seamy side of eighteenth century life' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'Rubenhold's pages practically reek with smelly, pox-ridden Georgian Soho' GUARDIAN ---------- In 1757, a down-and-out Irish poet, the head waiter at the Shakespear's Head Tavern in Covent Garden, and a celebrated London courtesan became bound together by the publication of a little book: Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies. This salacious work - detailing the names and 'specialities' of the capital's sex-workers- became one of the eighteenth century's most scandalous bestsellers. Yet beyond its titillating passages lies a glimpse into the lives of those who lived and died by its profits - a tragicomic opera of the Georgian era, motivated by poverty, passionate love, aspiration and shame. In this modern and visceral narrative, historian Hallie Rubenhold reveals the story behind Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies, and the legion of ordinary women whose lives in the sex trade history has chosen to ignore. ______ 'Scrupulously researched' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Crackles with drama and tension' GUARDIAN 'Compelling and ingenious' INDEPENDENT WHAT READERS ARE SAYING: *****'Brilliant. Full of intelligent insight which brings this period to vibrant life' *****'A wonderful insight into sheer survival of women during this period' *****'A fascinating, breath-taking journey back in time'
Book Synopsis Harris's List of Covent-Garden Ladies by :
Download or read book Harris's List of Covent-Garden Ladies written by and published by . This book was released on 1787 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Covent Garden Ladies by : Hallie Rubenhold
Download or read book The Covent Garden Ladies written by Hallie Rubenhold and published by History Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the scandalous 18th-century bestseller, 'Harris' List', an infamous guidebook of prostitutes which detailed addresses, physical characteristics and 'specialities' and sold over 250,000 copies over 20 years.
Book Synopsis The Harlot's Handbook by : Hallie Rubenhold
Download or read book The Harlot's Handbook written by Hallie Rubenhold and published by Tempus Publishing, Limited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Harris's List' was a best-seller of the 18th century shifting 250,000 copies. An annual 'guide book', it detailed the names and 'specialities' of London's prostitutes. Hallie Rubenhold has collected the funniest, rudest and most surreal entries penned by Jack Harris in this book.
Book Synopsis Harris's List of Covent-Garden Ladies: Or, Man of Pleasure's Kalender, for the Year 1789 by : Jack Harris
Download or read book Harris's List of Covent-Garden Ladies: Or, Man of Pleasure's Kalender, for the Year 1789 written by Jack Harris and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Scandalous Lady W by : Hallie Rubenhold
Download or read book The Scandalous Lady W written by Hallie Rubenhold and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the divorce that scandalised Georgian England... She was a spirited young heiress. He was a handsome baronet with a promising career in government. Their marriage had the makings of a fairy tale but ended as one of the most salacious and highly publicised divorces in history. For over two hundred years the story of Lady Worsley, her vengeful husband, and her lover, George Maurice Bisset, lay forgotten. Now Hallie Rubenhold, in her impeccably researched book, throws open a window to a rarely seen view of Georgian England, one coloured by passion, adventure and the defiance of social convention. The Worsley's story, their struggles and outrageous lifestyle, promises to shock even the modern reader.
Book Synopsis The Diverting History of John Gilpin by : William Cowper
Download or read book The Diverting History of John Gilpin written by William Cowper and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Sexual Life of Our Time in Its Relations to Modern Civilization by : Iwan Bloch
Download or read book The Sexual Life of Our Time in Its Relations to Modern Civilization written by Iwan Bloch and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Brothers of the Quill by : Norma Clarke
Download or read book Brothers of the Quill written by Norma Clarke and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oliver Goldsmith arrived in England a penniless Irishman and toiled for years in the anonymity of Grub Street. Norma Clarke tells how this destitute scribbler became one of literary London’s most celebrated authors, transmuting dark truths about the empire into fable and nostalgia whose undertow of Irish indignation remains just barely perceptible.
Book Synopsis You Could Look It Up by : Jack Lynch
Download or read book You Could Look It Up written by Jack Lynch and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Knowledge is of two kinds," said Samuel Johnson in 1775. "We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." Today we think of Wikipedia as the source of all information, the ultimate reference. Yet it is just the latest in a long line of aggregated knowledge--reference works that have shaped the way we've seen the world for centuries. You Could Look It Up chronicles the captivating stories behind these great works and their contents, and the way they have influenced each other. From The Code of Hammurabi, the earliest known compendium of laws in ancient Babylon almost two millennia before Christ to Pliny's Natural History; from the 11th-century Domesday Book recording land holdings in England to Abraham Ortelius's first atlas of the world; from Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language to The Whole Earth Catalog to Google, Jack Lynch illuminates the human stories and accomplishment behind each, as well as its enduring impact on civilization. In the process, he offers new insight into the value of knowledge.
Download or read book The Five written by Hallie Rubenhold and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2019 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miscast in the media for nearly 130 years, the victims of Jack the Ripper finally get their full stories told in this eye-opening and chilling reminder that life for middle-class women in Victorian London could be full of social pitfalls and peril.
Download or read book Georgian London written by Lucy Inglis and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Georgian London: Into the Streets, Lucy Inglis takes readers on a tour of London's most formative age - the age of love, sex, intellect, art, great ambition and fantastic ruin. Travel back to the Georgian years, a time that changed expectations of what life could be. Peek into the gilded drawing rooms of the aristocracy, walk down the quiet avenues of the new middle class, and crouch in the damp doorways of the poor. But watch your wallet - tourists make perfect prey for the thriving community of hawkers, prostitutes and scavengers. Visit the madhouses of Hackney, the workshops of Soho and the mean streets of Cheapside. Have a coffee in the city, check the stock exchange, and pop into St Paul's to see progress on the new dome. This book is about the Georgians who called London their home, from dukes and artists to rent boys and hot air balloonists meeting dog-nappers and life-models along the way. It investigates the legacies they left us in architecture and art, science and society, and shows the making of the capital millions know and love today. 'Read and be amazed by a city you thought you knew' Jonathan Foyle, World Monuments Fund 'Jam-packed with unusual insights and facts. A great read from a talented new historian' Independent 'Pacy, superbly researched. The real sparkle lies in its relentless cavalcade of insightful anecdotes . . . There's much to treasure here' Londonist 'Inglis has a good ear for the outlandish, the farcical, the bizarre and the macabre. A wonderful popular history of Hanoverian London' London Historians In 2009 Lucy Inglis began blogging on the lesser-known aspects of London during the Eighteenth Century - including food, immigration and sex- at GeorgianLondon.com. She lives in London with her husband. Georgian London is her first book.
Book Synopsis Ranger's Impartial List of the Ladies of Pleasure in Edinburgh by : James Tytler
Download or read book Ranger's Impartial List of the Ladies of Pleasure in Edinburgh written by James Tytler and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mistress of My Fate by : Hallie Rubenhold
Download or read book Mistress of My Fate written by Hallie Rubenhold and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: England in the 1780s. Henrietta is illegitimate, born to an aristocratic father and a courtesan. From the moment she draws breath, she is fated to live in the shadows of her cousin, the manipulative Lady Catherine. But when Henrietta meets Lord Allenham, her sisterly relationship with Lady Catherine turns into rivalry.
Book Synopsis The French Lesson by : Hallie Rubenhold
Download or read book The French Lesson written by Hallie Rubenhold and published by Charnwood. This book was released on 2017-01-02 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henrietta Lightfoot, a young Englishwoman, trips on her silk gown as she runs for her life along the bloodstained streets of revolutionary Paris. She finds refuge in the opulent home of Grace Dalrymple Elliot, the city's most celebrated courtesan. But heads are rolling, neighbours fear neighbours, and masters whisper before servants. As the sound of the guillotine echoes outside, within the gilded salons of high society Henrietta becomes a pawn in a vicious power game. How will she survive in a world where no one can be trusted?
