(Doubleday,2012)

Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies was a bestseller of the eighteenth century
shifting 250,000 copies in an age before mass consumerism. An annual ‘guidebook’, it detailed the names and ‘specialities’ of the capital’s sex workers.

During its heyday (1757-95) Harris’s List was the essential accessory for any serious gentleman of pleasure. Yet beyond its titillating passages lay a glimpse into the lives of those who lived and died by the List’s profits during the Georgian era.

This edited version contains entries from a range of Harris’s Lists and an introductory essay.

Covent Garden Ladies Links

Listen to Hallie discuss Covent Garden Ladies on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour 

Hallie’s research on The Harris’s List makes news in the UK national press