Betty Careless
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Betty Careless or Betsy Careless was a notorious English prostitute and bagnio-owner. Probably born Elizabeth Carless, she adapted her name to better suit her profession. Her name, beauty and reputati
The sleeping Betty is carried home in a sedan chair after a night of revelling in Boitard's 1739 The Covent Garden Morning Frolick.
Covent Garden
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Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St Martin's Lane and Drury Lane. It is associated with the former fruit-and-vegetable market in the central squar
Betty Careless
…than one or two in between them". In the early 1730s she reached the peak of her professional career, and she moved to a house in the Little Piazza in Covent Garden to try her hand as a bawd. She takes centre-stage in Louis Peter Boitard's 1739 picture The Covent Garden Morning Frolick, in which she is being…
Interior of the former vegetable market, 2006
The Earl of Bedford was given Covent Garden in 1552.
Charles Fowler's 1830 neo-classical building restored as a retail market
Neal's Yard Dairy, a well-known cheese shop