Mapping London's 18Th Century Prostitutes

Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies was an annual 18th century directory of London prostitutes. The directory non solely provided the addresses together with rates of London's prostitutes it likewise included descriptions of their physical appearance together with sexual specialities.

Romantic London has mapped the 93 entries inwards the 1788 edition of the directory. Mapping Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies (1788) plots the addresses of the 93 entries on altitude of the vintage Horwood's Plan of London (1792-9). Select a marking on the map together with yous tin read the 'lewd together with oft misogynistic' work organisation human relationship given inwards the directory.

As Romantic London points out the directory romanticizes prostitution 'while largely silencing the women involved ... (and) ... fails to work organisation human relationship for the suffering together with exploitation of those whose histories it affects to encompass'.

Romantic London has likewise used the vintage map of Horwood's Plan of London equally the backdrop for mapping a lay out of other 18th century London texts. This includes Fore's Guide to London, a guide to only about of 18th century London's close of import buildings, together with Modern London, an 1804 guide to the city.