#TBRPile 📚 “Although you may not recognise it, you are standing in Covent Garden […] the piazza in puris naturalibus, in its mid-eighteenth-century state, complete with cobblestones, dust and open drains.”
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The Covent Garden Ladies: Pimp General Jack & the Extraordinary Story of Harris's List | 
#TBRPile 📚 “Although you may not recognise it, you are standing in Covent Garden […] the piazza in puris naturalibus, in its mid-eighteenth-century state, complete with cobblestones, dust and open drains.”
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pickI read this because it‘s the basis for the series “Harlots” on Hulu, which I love. It was interesting, though disheartening re women‘s lives in the 18th century. Audiobook narration was good. #readyoursign ♓️ prompt 11 (a prompt from ♍️ list) - Jack Harris was a master waiter/pimp and incredibly organized, keeping the details of hundreds of customers and ladies straight in order to match them up well, and collecting money from every one.
“I wrote Obscenity and Profaneness, under the Names of Pope and Swift...I abridg‘d Histories and Travels, translated from the French what they never wrote, and was an expert at finding out new Titles for old Books.” Richard Savage on being a hack writer.
