The Covent Garden Ladies (48 page)

The Universal Magazine
, ‘An Account of the parish of Whitchurch, or Little Stanmore in Middlesex: With a Perspective View of Canons; the Elegant Villa of Patrick (Andrew) O’Kelly’ (October 1794)

Archival Material

UNIVERSITY OF HULL BRYNMOR JONES LIBRARY:

O’Kelly family papers:

DDLA 40/1, 40/3, 40/10, 40/13, 40/44, 40/53, 40/55, 40/56, 40/64, 40/66, 40/70,

ARCHIVES OF THE NORTH LONDON COLLEGIATE SCHOOL, CANONS PARK:

Cuttings on History of Canons Park, Eclipse, Dennis O’Kelly

SURREY HISTORY CENTRE:

Clay Hill Estate Papers: 6632/2/ 1-9

WESTMINSTER CITY ARCHIVES:

St James’s, Piccadilly, St George, Westminster and St Anne, Soho:

Rate Books and Receipts (1730–1795)

Parish records for Births, Baptisms and Marriages

LONDON METROPOLITAN ARCHIVES:

Burial Records for St Lawrence, Stanmore

PUBLIC RECORDS OFFICE:

PCC Wills for:

Dennis O’Kelly

Andrew Dennis O’Kelly

Robert Tracy

THE HARRIS’S LISTS

Turner, E. S.,
The Shocking History of Advertising
(London, 1952)

Articles and Periodicals

Atkins, P.J., ‘The Covent Garden Ladies’,
Factotum
, no. 30 (December 1989), p. 13

Denlinger, Elizabeth Campbell, ‘The Garment and the Man: Masculine Desire in
Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies
, 1764–1793’,
Journal of the History of Sexuality
, vol. 11, no. 3 July 2002

Wood, J.L., ‘Meaner Beauties of the Night’,
Factotum
, no. 30 (December 1989), p. 13

The Centinel
(2 June 1757)

The Ranger’s Magazine or; The Man of Fashion’s Companion
(London, 1794)

The Times
(10 February 1795)

Archival Material

BRITISH LIBRARY:

Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies; or Man of Pleasure’s Kalendar
(1788, 1789, 1790, 1793)

Patrick Spedding (ed.),
Eighteenth Century British Erotica
, vol. 4,
Harris’s List for 1773

LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, FARMINGTON CONNECTICUT:

Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies; or Man of Pleasure’s Kalendar for the year 1779
(annotated by Horace Bleackley)

LONDON GUILDHALL LIBRARY:

Harris’s List for the Year 1764
(London, 1764) (photocopy including Horace Bleackley and E.J. Burford’s notations and
Harris’s List Supplement for 1773
)

Typescript of E.J. Burford’s notes on the
Harris’s Lists

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND:

Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies or New Atalantis for the Year 1761
(London, 1761)

GENERAL

Anon.,
A New Atlantis for the Year 1758
(London, 1758)

Anon.,
Intrigue-á-la-mode, or, The Covent Garden Atalantis
(London, 1767)

Anon.,
Nancy Dawson’s Jests
(London, 1761)

Anon.,
The Histories of Some of the Penitents at the Magdalen House, as supposed to be related by themselves
(London, 1760)

Anon.,
The Life and Character of Moll King late Mistress of King’s Coffee-House in Covent Garden
(London, 1747)

Ackroyd, Peter,
London, the Biography
(London, 2000)

Appleton, William,
Charles Macklin, an Actor’s Life
(London, 1960)

Bindman, David,
Hogarth
(London, 1997)

Bleackley, Horace,
Ladies Fair and Frail, Sketches of the Demi-Monde of the Eighteenth Century
(London, 1925)

Brewer, John,
The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century
(London, 1997)

Brown of Yarmouth, Richard,
The Description of a Bawdy House
(London, 1776)

Burney, Fanny,
Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World
(London, 1779)

Clayton, Antony,
London’s Coffee Houses
(London, 2003)

Davidoff, Lenore,
Family Fortunes; Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780–1850
(London, 1987)

Fielding, John,
A Plan for the Preservatory and Reformatory for the Benefit of Deserted Girls and Penitent Prostitutes
(London, 1758)

Green, John (George Henry Townsend),
Evans’s Music and Supper Rooms: Odds and Ends about Covent Garden and its Vicinity
(London, 1866)

Hanway, Jonas,
Thoughts on the Plan for a Magdalen House
(London, 1758)

Harvey, A.D.,
Sex in Georgian England
(London, 2001)

Henderson, Tony,
Disorderly Women in Eighteenth Century London
(London, 1999)

Hickman, Katie,
Courtesans
(London, 2003)

Hitchcock, Tim,
English Sexualities, 1700–1800
(London, 1997)

Johnston, Edith Mary,
Ireland in the Eighteenth Century
(Dublin, 1974)

Kahrl, George and Stone, George Winchester,
David Garrick, a Critical Biography
(London, 1979)

Kendall, Alan,
David Garrick, a Biography
(London, 1985)

Lecky, W.E.H.,
A History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century
(London, 2000)

Linebaugh, Peter,
The London Hanged; Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century
(London, 1991)

Ludovicus, M.,
A Particular but Melancholy Account of the Great Hardships, Difficulties and Miseries that those Unhappy and much to be Pitied Creatures, the Common Women of the Town, Are Plung’d into at this Juncture
(London, 1752)

Mannix, D.P.,
The Hell-Fire Club
(New York, 1959)

Moody, T.W. and Vaughan, W.E. (eds),
A New History of Ireland, Eighteenth Century Ireland, 1691–1800
, vol. 4 (Oxford, 1986)

Mountaigue, James, ‘The Old Bailey Chronicle’ in
The Newgate Calendar
(London, 1783)

Ogle, Luke,
The Natural Secret History of Both Sexes or, a Modest Defense of Public Stews
(London, 1740)

O’Connell, Sheila,
London, 1753
(London, 2003)

O’Keefe, John,
Recollections of the Life of John O’Keefe, Written by Himself
(London, 1836)

Oliver, Francis,
The Memoirs of Lady Hamilton
(London, 1815)

Peakman, Julie,
Mighty Lewd Books
(London, 2003)

Phillips, Richard,
The Memoirs of Samuel Foote
, 3 vols (London, 1805)

Picard, Liza,
Dr Johnson’s London: Life in London, 1710–1770
(London, 2000)

Porter, Roy,
English Society in the Eighteenth Century
(London, 1990)

Stone, Lawrence,
The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500–1800
(London, 1979)

Thompson, Edward,
The Meretriciad
(London, 1765)

Thrale, Mary (ed.),
The Autobiography of Francis Place
(London, 1972)

Timbs, John,
A History of Clubs and Club Life in London
(London, 1886)

Trumbach, Randolph,
Sex and the Gender Revolution; Heterosexuality and the Third gender in Enlightenment London
, vol. 1 (London, 1998)

Welch, Saunders,
A Proposal to Render Effectual a Plan to Remove the Nuissance of Common Prostitutes from the Streets of the Metropolis
(1758)

Valentine, Edwin (ed.),
The Newgate Calendar, Comprising Interesting Memoirs of the Most Notorious Characters that have been convicted of outrages on the laws of England
(London, 1928)

Williams, Clare,
Sophie in London, 1786
(London, 1933)

Wilson, Frances,
The Courtesan’s Revenge: the life of Harriet Wilson
(London, 2003)

Articles

Nelson, T.G.A., ‘Women of Pleasure’,
Eighteenth Century Life
, XI, n.s., 1 (1987), pp. 181–98

Simpson, Antony E., “‘The Mouth of Strange Women is a Deep Pit”: Male Guilt and Legal
Attitudes Towards Prostitution in Georgian London’,
The Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture
, vol. 4, (3) (1996), pp. 50–79

Rogers, N., ‘Carnal Knowledge: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth Century Westminster’,
Journal of Social History
, XXIII, 2 (1989), pp. 355–75

Eighteenth-Century Periodicals

Faulkner’s Dublin Journal

Lloyd’s Evening Post

London Chronicle

London Gazette

Owen’s Weekly Chronicle

Read’s Weekly Journal

The Annual Register

The Busy Body

The Covent Garden Chronicle

The Critical Review

Gentleman’s Magazine

The Monitor

The Monthly Review

The Public Advertiser

The Rambler

The Theatrical Monitor

The Universal Magazine

Town and Country Magazine, or Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction and Entertainment

St. James Chronicle

Online Sources

Old Bailey Sessions Papers
: Old Bailey Proceedings on Line (
www.oldbaileyonline.org
)

List
OF
ILLUSTRATIONS

1
. Samuel Derrick. By permission of the British Library.

2
. Charlotte Hayes (engraving after Joshua Reynolds). By permission of the British Museum.

3
. Engraving by William Hogarth:
The Times of the Day
, ‘Morning’. Author’s collection.

4
. Engraving by William Hogarth:
The Distrest Poet
. Author’s collection.

5
. Engraving by William Hogarth:
Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn
. Author’s collection.

6
. Engraving by William Hogarth:
The Harlot’s Progress
, Plate I. Author’s collection.

7
. Mrs Lessingham in the character of Ophelia: ‘There’s rue for you’. By permission of the University of Bristol Theatre Collection.

8
. Frontispiece and title page from the
Harris’s List
, 1761. By permission of the National Libraries of Scotland.

9
. Frontispiece from
The Harris’s List
, 1779. Courtesy of the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

10
. The
Harris’s List
, 1761. A page from the earliest existing copy. By permission of the National Libraries of Scotland.

11
. Frontispiece and title page from the
Harris’s List
, 1793. By permission of the British Library.

12
. Miss Smith. By permission of the National Libraries of Scotland.

13
. Engraving by William Hogarth:
Industry and Idleness
, ‘The Idle ’Prentice return’d from Sea & in a Garret with a common Prostitute.’ Author’s collection.

14
. Engraving by William Hogarth:
Before
. Author’s collection.

15
. Engraving by William Hogarth:
After
. Author’s collection.

16
. Engraving by William Hogarth:
The Laughing Audience
. Author’s collection.

17
. Charlotte Spencer. Author’s collection.

18
. Fanny Murray. Author’s collection.