Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies

哈里斯的考文特花园小姐名单出版于1757年至1795年，是在乔治亚时代伦敦工作的妓女的年度目录。每个版本都包含描述大约120-190名在科文特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扬，但他们完全是通过男性的凝视来描述她们，并从她们给男性带来快乐的能力方面进行描述。这些都是真实的女性，尽管她们可能没有使用以出卖性服务为生的真名。我一直对18世纪的文学和社会史感兴趣，尤其是因为人们对于性和性的态度截然不同。性是生活的一部分，出卖性是司空见惯的，例如，当季节性工作枯竭时，许多工薪阶层女性转向卖淫。在格拉布街，色情文学和露骨的雕刻品随处可见，贞洁是上流社会的专利。笛福的《罗克珊娜与摩尔·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，妓女们讲述了她们的故事，逃避了罪恶生活的道德后果。克莱兰的小说实际上是范妮写给她女儿的一封信。霍加斯在《妓女的进行曲》中饰演的莫尔·哈克克在贫困中孤独地死于梅毒，这一可怕的命运对许多妓女来说更有可能是一个结局，这个项目希望揭示这一命运，或者至少讲述哈里斯名单上的女性的故事。名单已经绘制好了，但我想绘制出提到的女性的地图，看看她们是否会复发并在妓院里走动。我还想看看我是否能在公共记录中找到他们中的任何一个，并更多地了解他们的生活。从那里，我想写下他们的故事，赋予他们生命和表达，超越他们在哈里斯名单中的条目。这个项目将包括大量的社会历史元素，旨在给了性工作者这个被边缘化的社区的可见度和发言权。它还将包括考文特花园的当地历史。最终的结果要么是一部短篇小说集，要么是一部由材料决定的小说。

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.