Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies, published from 1760 to 1794, was an annual directory of prostitutes then working in Georgian London. A small pocketbook, it was printed and published in Covent G
Frontispiece and title page of 1773 edition
Engraving of Covent Garden by Sutton Nicholls, c. 1720. The Shakespeare's Head Tavern was in the northeast corner of the square (centre right), alongside the premises of infamous brothel-keepers like Jane Douglas.
Kitty Fisher by Joshua Reynolds, 1763/64. As a prominent British courtesan, Fisher is mentioned in at least one edition of Harris's List.
Harris's list; or, Cupid's London Directory, by Richard Newton, 1794
Kitty Fisher
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Catherine Maria Fischer, better known as Kitty Fisher, was an English courtesan. From her teenage years onward, Fisher developed a carefully moulded public image, which was enhanced by acknowledgement
Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies
…shillings to five pounds, are provided. The types of sex worker presented in the lists vary from "low-born errant drabs", to prominent courtesans like Kitty Fisher and Fanny Murray; later editions contain only "genteel mannered prostitutes worthy of praise". The charms of a Mrs Dodd, who lived at number six Hind…
"Catherine Maria Kitty Fisher" by Nathaniel Hone.
Portrait of Philip Gell by Sir Joshua Reynolds