Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies

哈里斯的考文特花园女士名单

• 批准号: 2592285
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Brunel University London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2592285
• 关键词: Harris; List; Covent; Garden; Ladies

Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies, published from 1757 to 1795, was an annual directory of prostitutes working in Georgian London. Each edition contains entries describing the physical appearance and sexual specialities of about 120-190 prostitutes who worked in and around Covent Garden. Most of the entries are complimentary about the women, but they are described entirely through the male gaze and in terms of their ability to give male pleasure. These were real women, although possibly not using their real names who made their living selling sex. I have always been interested in eighteenth-century literature and social history, not least because the attitude towards sex and sexuality was markedly different. Sex was part of life and selling sex was commonplace, many working-class women turning to prostitution when seasonal work dried up, for example. Erotic literature and explicit engravings were freely available in Grub Street, and chastity was the preserve of the polite classes. Novels such as Defoe's Roxana and Moll Flanders and Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, were first-person narratives where prostitutes told their stories and evaded the moral consequences of a life of sin. Cleland's novel actually takes the form of a letter from Fanny to her daughter. The terrible fate of Hogarth's Moll Hackabout in The Harlot's Progress, who dies alone of syphilis in poverty was a more likely end for many prostitutes, and this project looks to uncover the fate, or at least tell the stories of the women in Harris's List.The list has been mapped, but I would like to map the women mentioned and to see if they recur and move around the brothels. I'd also like to see if I can find mention of any of them in the public records, and understand more about their lives. From there, I'd like to write their stories, to give them life and expression beyond their entries in Harris's List.The project would include a large element of social history, aimed at giving visibility and voice to a marginalised community of sex workers. It would also include local history of Covent Garden. The end result would be either a collection of short stories or a novel to be dictated by the material.

哈里斯的《科旺花园女士名录》（英语：List of Covent Garden Ladies）出版于1757年至1795年，是一份在乔治时代的伦敦工作的妓女的年度名录。每一版都包含描述大约120-190名在科旺花园及其周围工作的妓女的外貌和性特征的条目。大多数条目都是对女性的赞美，但她们完全是通过男性的目光和她们给男性带来快乐的能力来描述的。这些都是真实的女人，虽然可能没有使用她们的真实的名字，她们以卖性为生。我一直对18世纪的文学和社会历史感兴趣，尤其是因为对性和性行为的态度明显不同。性是生活的一部分，卖淫是司空见惯的，例如，许多工人阶级妇女在季节性工作枯竭时转向卖淫。在格拉布街，色情文学和露骨的版画随处可见，而贞洁则是上流社会的专利。笛福的《罗克珊娜》、《摩尔弗兰德斯》和克莱兰的《快乐女人回忆录》等小说都是第一人称叙事，妓女讲述了她们的故事，逃避了罪恶生活的道德后果。克莱兰的小说实际上采取了范妮给女儿的一封信的形式。霍加斯在《妓女的历程》中饰演的摩尔·哈克布特（Moll Hackabout），在贫困中孤独地死于梅毒，她的可怕命运对许多妓女来说更有可能是一个结局，而这个项目希望揭开命运，或者至少讲述哈里斯名单上的女人的故事。名单已经被绘制出来，但我想绘制出提到的女人的地图，看看她们是否会复发，在妓院里四处走动。我也想看看我是否能在公共记录中找到他们中的任何一个，并了解更多关于他们的生活。从那时起，我想写他们的故事，给他们生命和表达超越他们的条目在哈里斯的名单。该项目将包括一个社会历史的大元素，旨在给一个边缘化的性工作者社区的能见度和声音。它还将包括科旺花园的当地历史。最终的结果将是一部短篇小说集或一部由材料决定的小说。