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Pimp General Jack & the Extraordinary Story of Harris' List

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Publisher: HighBridge
Release date: October 29, 2019
Duration: 11:46:21

The Covent Garden Ladies tells the story of Samuel Derrick, Jack Harris, and Charlotte Hayes, whose complicated and colorful lives were brought together by the publication of Harris’ List, an infamous guidebook of prostitutes which detailed addresses, physical characteristics, and “specialties”.

The true history of the book is a tragicomedy motivated by poverty, passionate love, aspiration, and shame. Its telling plunges the listener down the dark alleys of 18th-century London’s underworld, a realm populated by tavern owners, pimps, punters, card sharps, and of course, a colorful range of prostitutes and brothel-keepers.

Readers’ comments…..” There are a lot of the usual problems in writing social history of the poor - the relative lack of documentary evidence, and the propensity of people to change their names, does make it hard to piece together people’s lives - and sometimes the author is forced to rely on conjecture. None of her conjectures are unreasonable but some are longer reaches than others, especially when it comes to what one or other of the people must have felt.”

“It did strike me how much our sexual ‘morality’ has changed. We regard the 18th century - especially in terms of high society - as a time of rigid sexual morality compared to our own. Certainly, any breath of impropriety could ruin a woman’s reputation - and chance of a decent life - forever. Same sex relationships were illegal and harshly punished. But by modern standards, many of the men on that list - who no doubt felt themselves blameless and were pillars of society - would be regarded as criminals. Many of these girls were children. Many ’seductions’ were, in fact, rapes. Many of these ‘filles de joie’ were no more than indentured slaves. People who condemn modern morality and long for a return to old fashioned values would do well to remember that.”

London fabled Covent Garden in the middle to late 1800’s, had Harris’ List, New Orleans’ Storyville 1897 – 1917, had The Blue Book…. As the saying goes, the more things change the more they stay the same.

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Creation Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2020 17:44:33 +0100
This is a Multifile Torrent
01. The Curtain Rises.mp3 10.27 MBs
02. The Legend of Jack Harris.mp3 11.8 MBs
03. The Irish Poet.mp3 16.68 MBs
04. The Birth of a Venus.mp3 11.52 MBs
05. The Rise of Pimp General Jack.mp3 24.63 MBs
06. Slave to Grub Street.mp3 15.3 MBs
07. The Complexities of Love.mp3 17.48 MBs
08. Inspiration.mp3 19.32 MBs
09. An Introduction to Harris’s Ladies.mp3 11.38 MBs
10. The List - Part 1.mp3 21.65 MBs
10. The List - Part 2.mp3 21.87 MBs
11. The Pimp Pays.mp3 10.38 MBs
12. The Fleet and O’Kelly.mp3 15.33 MBs
13. Harrison’s Return.mp3 7.96 MBs
14. Santa Charlotta of King’s Place.mp3 19.11 MBs
15. ‘The Little King of Bath’.mp3 17.68 MBs
16. ‘Whore Raising, or Horse Racing; How to Brood a Mare or…mp3 25.54 MBs
17. Full Circle.mp3 8.49 MBs
18. The Respectable Mrs Kelly.mp3 10.57 MBs
19. The Last Days of the List.mp3 8.14 MBs
20. Ladies of the List.mp3 18.3 MBs
Combined File Size: 323.39 MBs
Piece Size: 256 KBs
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