The Covent Garden Ladies: The Extraordinary Story of Harris's List
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CHARLOTTE HAYES
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DDLA 40/1, 40/3, 40/10, 40/13, 40/44, 40/53, 40/55, 40/56, 40/64, 40/66, 40/70,
ARCHIVES OF THE NORTH LONDON COLLEGIATE SCHOOL, CANONS PARK:
Cuttings on History of Canons Park, Eclipse, Dennis O’Kelly
SURREY HISTORY CENTRE:
Clay Hill Estate Papers: 6632/2/ 1-9
WESTMINSTER CITY ARCHIVES:
St James’s, Piccadilly, St George, Westminster and St Anne, Soho:
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Parish records for Births, Baptisms and Marriages
LONDON METROPOLITAN ARCHIVES:
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Dennis O’Kelly
Andrew Dennis O’Kelly
Robert Tracy
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Articles and Periodicals
Atkins, P.J., ‘The Covent Garden Ladies’, Factotum, no. 30 (December 1989), p. 13
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The Centinel (2 June 1757)
The Ranger’s Magazine or; The Man of Fashion’s Companion (London, 1794)
The Times (10 February 1795)
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BRITISH LIBRARY:
Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies; or Man of Pleasure’s Kalendar (1788, 1789, 1790, 1793)
Patrick Spedding (ed.), Eighteenth Century British Erotica, vol. 4, Harris’s List for 1773
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, FARMINGTON CONNECTICUT:
Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies; or Man of Pleasure’s Kalendar for the year 1779 (annotated by Horace Bleackley)
LONDON GUILDHALL LIBRARY:
Harris’s List for the Year 1764 (London, 1764) (photocopy including Horace Bleackley and E.J. Burford’s notations and Harris’s List Supplement for 1773)
Typescript of E.J. Burford’s notes on the Harris’s Lists
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND:
Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies or New Atalantis for the Year 1761 (London, 1761)
GENERAL
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Articles
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Eighteenth-Century Periodicals
Faulkner’s Dublin Journal
Lloyd’s Evening Post
London Chronicle
London Gazette
Owen’s Weekly Chronicle
Read’s Weekly Journal
The Annual Register
The Busy Body
The Covent Garden Chronicle
The Critical Review
Gentleman’s Magazine
The Monitor
The Monthly Review
The Public Advertiser
The Rambler
The Theatrical Monitor
The Universal Magazine
Town and Country Magazine, or Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction and Entertainment
St. James Chronicle
Online Sources
Old Bailey Sessions Papers: Old Bailey Proceedings on Line (www.oldbaileyonline.org)
List OF ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Samuel Derrick. By permission of the British Library.
2. Charlotte Hayes (engraving after Joshua Reynolds). By permission of the British Museum.
3. Engraving by William Hogarth: The Times of the Day, ‘Morning’. Author’s collection.
4. Engraving by William Hogarth: The Distrest Poet. Author’s collection.
5. Engraving by William Hogarth: Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn. Author’s collection.
6. Engraving by William Hogarth: The Harlot’s Progress, Plate I. Author’s collection.
7. Mrs Lessingham in the character of Ophelia: ‘There’s rue for you’. By permission of the University of Bristol Theatre Collection.
8. Frontispiece and title page from the Harris’s List, 1761. By permission of the National Libraries of Scotland.
9. Frontispiece from The Harris’s List, 1779. Courtesy of the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
10. The Harris’s List, 1761. A page from the earliest existing copy. By permission of the National Libraries of Scotland.
11. Frontispiece and title page from the Harris’s List, 1793. By permission of the British Library.
12. Miss Smith. By permission of the National Libraries of Scotland.
13. Engraving by William Hogarth: Industry and Idleness, ‘The Idle ’Prentice return’d from Sea & in a Garret with a common Prostitute.’ Author’s collection.
14. Engraving by William Hogarth: Before. Author’s collection.
15. Engraving by William Hogarth: After. Author’s collection.
16. Engraving by William Hogarth: The Laughing Audience. Author’s collection.
17. Charlotte Spencer. Author’s collection.
18. Fanny Murray. Author’s collection.
19. Betsy Coxe (or Cox). Author’s collection.
20. Dennis O’Kelly with Philip O’Kelly and others at Newmarket, by Thomas Rowlandson. By permission of the Earl of Halifax.
21. Engraving by William Hogarth: The Rake’s Progress, ‘The Rose Tavern’. Author’s collection.
22. A Late Unfortunate Adventure at York. Author’s collection.
23. Miss S—t—n, the beauty of Arlington Street. By permission of the National Libraries of Scotland.
24. Canons Park, 1782. Author’s collection.
25. The yard of the Fleet Prison, c.1749. Courtesy of Jonathan Reeve.
26. Covent Garden (eastward view), 1786. Courtesy of Jonathan Reeve. JR813b42p241 17501800.
27. St James’s Square, c.1770. Courtesy of Jonathan Reeve. JR816b43p187 17501800.
INDEX
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Actors 39–40
Adam, Robert 261
Addington, Justice William 106
Aitkin, John 280
Armistead, Elizabeth 287
Aretino’s Postures 253
Ashurst, Justice Henry 283
Baddeley, Sophia 201, 288
Baltimore, Lord 126
Banks, Nancy 216
Barry, Charlotte 292
Bath 227
Bedford Arms Tavern 12, 192
Bedford Coffee House 12, 38, 39, 52, 87, 92, 182, 183, 199, 235, 281
Bedford Head Tavern (Maiden Lane) 12, 22–3, 24, 26, 27, 28, 265–66
Beefsteak Society 52, 53
Bell, Ann 95–96
Bellamy, George Anne 84, 201
Bob Derry’s Cider Cellar 24
Bond, Ann 126
Boscawen, Admiral Edward 105
Boswell, James 53, 85, 110, 112, 223, 224, 230
Bridgeman, Sir Orlando 83
Brown, Miss (mistress of James Grant) 124
Burford, E.J. 26
Burney, Fanny 125
Canning, Elizabeth 125
Canons Park estate 168, 273–4, 275
Casanova, Giacomo 68
Chandos, 1st Duke of 273, 276
Charlemont, 1st earl of 224, 229
Charteris, Col. Francis 126
Chesterfield, 4th earl of 84, 224, 227, 229
Chidwick, Dr. 213–14, 271
Clarke, Miss 117
Clay Hill estate, Epsom 222, 243–4, 245, 248, 250, 252, 254–5, 259, 271, 272–3, 274
Cleland, John 44, 48, 221
Cole, ‘Mother’ 44
Collette, Jacques ‘the Frenchman’ 228, 230, 231
Colquhoun, John 121
Cooke, Francis 75
Cooly, Ann 127
Cooper, Lucy 49, 50, 83, 92, 100, 120, 128–9, 131, 290–1
Coram, Thomas 178, 241
Cork and Orrery, 5th earl of 224, 227, 229
Cornelys, Theresa 216, 252
Covent Garden 10–11, 80, 110, 116–117, 161, 169, 181
Coxe, Betsy 166, 209, 285
/> Creagh, Elizabeth 28, 31, 32, 33, 34, 39, 40, 41, 73, 106–7, 225–26
Cresdale, James 262
Crouch, Mrs 276
Cumberland, Henry Frederick Duke of 181
Curll, Edmund 76
D’Archenholz, Baron 216, 221
Dashwood, Sir Francis 84, 212
Dawson, Nancy 14, 285, 290, 293–4
Day, Ann 287
Defoe, Daniel 123
Delany, Mary 34
Denlinger Elizabeth Campbell 119
Derrick family of County Carlow 30–1
Derrick, Samuel 14, 24, 119, 120, 183, 223, 265, 268, 274, 277
early years and apprenticeship 28–37
poetry 29–30, 41, 73, 74, 77, 83–84, 97–98, 103, 226
theatre 34–36, 40, 74, 103
and Charlotte Hayes 50, 51, 92–99, 100–101, 104, 196, 239–40
physical appearance 78, 79, 93, 161
opinions of 84–85
and women 81–83
at the Shakespear’s Head 80–81
debts 78–79, 107–110, 237, 239
and Jane Lessingham 102–105, 106–108, 235–36
Memoirs of the Shakespear’s Head 103, 111–12, 113
and Jack Harris 111–113
as author of the Harris’s List 112–117, 204–205, 277–78, 279
patrons 224–26
life in Bath 226–37
election as Master of the Ceremonies at
Bath and Tunbridge Wells 228–30
illness and death 236–37, 239
Derry, Bob 24, 128
Dingley, Robert 178, 179
Diver, Jenny 135
Douglas, ‘Mother’ Jane 12, 64, 118, 181–82, 184, 195
Drake family of Devonshire 30
Dubery, Sarah 251
Dublin 28, 31, 32, 34, 36, 37–8, 40, 41, 224–5
Dundas, Henry Viscount Melville 270
Egremont, 2nd earl of 217
Ellison, Miss 214
Falmouth, 2nd Viscount 217
Fanny Hill 44, 221
Faulkner, George 28, 34, 37, 38, 41, 79, 224, 225
Fenhoulet, Sir Peter 287
Fielding, Henry 13, 53, 76
Fielding, Justice John 13, 53, 122, 178, 179, 180, 183, 192, 206, 260
Fisher, Kitty 83, 92, 120, 129, 285, 288
Fleet prison 169, 187–90, 192–4, 196
Floyd, Thomas 79
Foote, Samuel 14, 38, 78, 84
Fox, Charles James 270, 287