The River and the Roses by Sophia Martin

Clicking on a marker brings up a full List entry all the entries can be seen in the listing below the map. Where a precise address is not given, the marker has been placed in a location chosen to mark most clearly the range of possible locations (for example, where only a street name is given, the marker has been placed as close to the centre of that street as possible). The map locates the list’s descriptions at the addresses which its headings provide. It is sometimes compelling as a composition, but its main use for modern audiences is as a record both of a deeply unpleasant side of eighteenth-century London and of the social attitudes which fostered the kinds of commerce and objectification which it embodies. It commonly fails to account for (and occasionally seems uncomfortably to relish) the suffering and exploitation of those whose histories it affects to encompass. Harris’s List is lewd and frequently misogynistic, romanticising prostitution while largely silencing the women involved. Containing the Histories and some curious Anecdotes of the most celebrated Ladies now on the Town, and also many of their Keepers. The map below locates the ninety-three entries from Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies: or, Man of Pleasure’s Kalender, For the YEAR, 1788. Mapping Pierce Egan’s Life in London (1821).Select Views (1816) – Plates Slideshow (Eastern Division).Select Views (1816) – Plates Slideshow (Western Division).Microcosm of London – Plates from Volume III.Microcosm of London – Plates from Volume II.Microcosm of London – Plates from Volume I.Introduction to The Microcosm of London (1808-10).

Modern London (1804) – Itinerant Trades Gallery.

Modern London (1804) – Itinerant Trades Map.Modern London (1804) – Landmarks Gallery.Malton’s Picturesque Tour – Plates Slideshow – Vol II.Malton’s Picturesque Tour – Plates Slideshow – Vol I.Mapping Malton’s Picturesque Tour (1792-1801).Introduction to Malton’s Picturesque Tour (1792-1801).Mapping Smith’s Antiquities of London (1791-1800).Mapping Fores’s New Guide for Foreigners.Introduction to Fores’s New Guide for Foreigners.Mapping Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies (1788).

Introduction to Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies.

The River and the Roses by Sophia Martin