Old references to the (not so) gentle art...
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2024 11:49 pm
Whilst perusing a public domain site for actual Georgian literature (and I will claim this till I die) I tripped over the absurdly named but immediately inviting work titled: Harris' List of Covent Garden Ladies or new Athlantis for the year 1765.
It is a hilarious romp of, well, presumably his hilarious romp through the ladies of pleasure in the pre-Victorian age, and it is fulsome in description of the ladies features and delights. It appears to have been popular too, for it is a book he seems to have had published every year for some time with additions and deletions as appropriate.
In relation to our arts, he mentions one Mrs Hamilton of Long Acre, who is described thus:
This is an old battered frow, who often trudges through hail, rain and snow, to pick up a cull; there is something about her person that is alluring; --- it is said she is one of the best in town at the game of the birch rod.
That the book is essentially one printed to provide the libertine a sales directory of the pleasures of Venus it is most certainly of its time, and its language reflects this, but without business cards or telephone boxes, it was likely the best advertising some of these ladies might receive.
Has anyone else got an old reference tripped upon by chance? I should love to see it if you do!
It is a hilarious romp of, well, presumably his hilarious romp through the ladies of pleasure in the pre-Victorian age, and it is fulsome in description of the ladies features and delights. It appears to have been popular too, for it is a book he seems to have had published every year for some time with additions and deletions as appropriate.
In relation to our arts, he mentions one Mrs Hamilton of Long Acre, who is described thus:
This is an old battered frow, who often trudges through hail, rain and snow, to pick up a cull; there is something about her person that is alluring; --- it is said she is one of the best in town at the game of the birch rod.
That the book is essentially one printed to provide the libertine a sales directory of the pleasures of Venus it is most certainly of its time, and its language reflects this, but without business cards or telephone boxes, it was likely the best advertising some of these ladies might receive.
Has anyone else got an old reference tripped upon by chance? I should love to see it if you do!