My Books Mistress of My Fate; The Confessions of Henrietta Lightfoot The 22nd October 1789: I shall never forget that day. I shall never forget the decision I made. I was seventeen and so ill prepared for life that I hardly knew how to dress myself, let alone how to board a mail coach or even how to purchase a loaf of bread. When I fled my home at Melmouth Park, I left those who both loved and hated me... Read more...  The Covent Garden Ladies; Pimp General Jack & The Extraordinary Story of Harris’s List (Tempus Publishing, 2005) In 1757, a down-and-out Irish poet, the head-waiter of Covent Garden's Shakespeare's Head Tavern, and a celebrated London courtesan became bound together by the publication of a little book: Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies. This salacious publication detailing the names and... Read more...  Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies; Sex in the City in Georgian Britain And The Harlot’s Handbook; Harris’s List Georgian Britain(Tempus Publishing, 2005, hardback) The Harlot’s Handbook; Harris’s List(Tempus Publishing, 2007, paperback) Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies was a bestseller of the eighteenth century shifting 250,000 copies in an age before mass consumerism. An... Read more...  Lady Worsley’s Whim: An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal and Divorce (Chatto & Windus, 2008 hardback, Vintage, 2009 paperback) She was a spirited young heiress. He was a handsome baronet with a promising career in government. Their marriage had the makings of a fairy tale but ended as one of the most scandalous and highly publicised divorces in history.The Worsleys, as friends of... Read more... |
