The Covent Garden Ladies | Hallie Rubenhold Queer Lit From Northumberland to the Yorkshire

From Northumberland to the Yorkshire moors

she invites her readers inside her brain

So when a mishap occurs

'Max Porter is one of my favourite writers in the world

accused of being a witch

The Covent Garden Ladies | Hallie Rubenhold Queer Lit From Northumberland to the YorkshireIn 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