Prostitution In Georgian London: Harlot’s progress

Oct 15th 2009 From The Economist print editionThe Secret History of Georgian London: How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital. By Dan Cruickshank. Random House: 688 pages; £25. Buy from Amazon.co.uk"Connoisseurs" by Thomas RowlandsonAS MANY as one in five young women were prostitutes in 18th-century London. The Covent Garden that tourists frequent today was the centre of a vast sex trade strewn across hundreds of brothels and so-called coffee houses. Fornication in public was common and even chil...

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