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one big generation gap
About a week later
the head waiter at the Shakespear's Head Tavern in Covent Garden
From Northumberland to the Yorkshire moors
So when a mishap occurs
The Covent Garden Ladies | Hallie Rubenhold Queer Lit one big generation gapIn 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
