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Ward, Robert E. (ed.), Prince of Dublin Printers; The Letters of George Faulkner (Lexington, Kentucky, 1972)

  Watkins, John, The Universal Biographical Dictionary, 8 vols (London, 1821)

  Watt, Robert, Bibliotheca Britannia; or a General Index to British Literature, 4 vols (London, 1824)

  Wilkes, Thomas (and Derrick, Samuel), A General View of the Stage (London, 1759)

  Articles and Periodicals

  Baldwin’s London Weekly Journal (22 March 1769)

  St. James’s Chronicle (28 March 1769 & 1 April 1769)

  The Connoisseur (16 January 1755 & 6 June 1754)

  Gentleman’s Magazine, 1st Series, 39 (1769), p. 215

  Town and Country Magazine, or Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction and Entertainment April & June 1769, pp. 177–80 (vol. 1)

  Archival Material

  National Art Library (Victoria and Albert Museum): Forster Collection 48. G3 – 30: Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers of Samuel Derrick

  CHARLOTTE HAYES

  Anon., Nocturnal Revels or the History of King’s Place and Other Modern Nunneries, by a Monk of the Order of St. Francis of Medmenham, 2 vols (London 1779)

  Anon., The Genuine Memoirs of Dennis O’Kelly (London, 1788)

  Anon., The New Foundling Hospital for Wit, ‘OMIAH, an Ode Addressed to Charlotte Hayes’ (London, 1784)

  Black, Robert, The Jockey Club and its Founders (London, 1891)

  Blyth, Henry, The High Tide of Pleasure; Seven English Rakes (London, 1970)

  Brown, Roger Lee, A History of the Fleet Prison (Lewiston, 1996)

  Burford, E.J., Wantons, Wits and Wenchers (London, 1986)

  Burford, E.J. and Wotton, Joy, Private Vices, Public Virtues (London, 1988)

  Cleland, John, Fanny Hill; or the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (London, 1749)

  Cook, Andrea Theodore, Eclipse and O’Kelly (London, 1907)

  Fillinham Collection, Vol. 2: Carlisle House and White Conduit House, ‘Masquerade Intelligence’, 5 May 1772

  Home, Gordon, Epsom, Its History and Surroundings (London, 1971)

  Quennell, Peter (ed.), The Memoirs of William Hickey (London, 1960)

  Von Archenholz, W., A Picture of England; Containing a Description of the Laws, Customs and Manners of England (Dublin, 1790)

  Articles and Periodicals

  Gentleman’s Magazine, 1st Series, 57 (1787), pp. 1196–7

  Town and Country Magazine, or Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction and Entertainment, 1769, (vol. 1), pp. 65–67, 1770 (vol. 2) pp. 474–477

  The Universal Magazine, ‘An Account of the parish of Whitchurch, or Little Stanmore in Middlesex: With a Perspective View of Canons; the Elegant Villa of Patrick (Andrew) O’Kelly’ (October 1794)

  Archival Material

  UNIVERSITY OF HULL BRYNMOR JONES LIBRARY:

  O’Kelly family papers:

  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:

  Rate Books and Receipts (1730–1795)

  Parish records for Births, Baptisms and Marriages

  LONDON METROPOLITAN ARCHIVES:

  Burial Records for St Lawrence, Stanmore

  PUBLIC RECORDS OFFICE:

  PCC Wills for:

  Dennis O’Kelly

  Andrew Dennis O’Kelly

  Robert Tracy

  THE HARRIS’S LISTS

  Turner, E. S., The Shocking History of Advertising (London, 1952)

  Articles and Periodicals

  Atkins, P.J., ‘The Covent Garden Ladies’, Factotum, no. 30 (December 1989), p. 13

  Denlinger, Elizabeth Campbell, ‘The Garment and the Man: Masculine Desire in Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies, 1764–1793’, Journal of the History of Sexuality, vol. 11, no. 3 July 2002

  Wood, J.L., ‘Meaner Beauties of the Night’, Factotum, no. 30 (December 1989), p. 13

  The Centinel (2 June 1757)

  The Ranger’s Magazine or; The Man of Fashion’s Companion (London, 1794)

  The Times (10 February 1795)

  Archival Material

  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

  Anon., A New Atlantis for the Year 1758 (London, 1758)

  Anon., Intrigue-á-la-mode, or, The Covent Garden Atalantis (London, 1767)

  Anon., Nancy Dawson’s Jests (London, 1761)

  Anon., The Histories of Some of the Penitents at the Magdalen House, as supposed to be related by themselves (London, 1760)

  Anon., The Life and Character of Moll King late Mistress of King’s Coffee-House in Covent Garden (London, 1747)

  Ackroyd, Peter, London, the Biography (London, 2000)

  Appleton, William, Charles Macklin, an Actor’s Life (London, 1960)

  Bindman, David, Hogarth (London, 1997)

  Bleackley, Horace, Ladies Fair and Frail, Sketches of the Demi-Monde of the Eighteenth Century (London, 1925)

  Brewer, John, The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century (London, 1997)

  Brown of Yarmouth, Richard, The Description of a Bawdy House (London, 1776)

  Burney, Fanny, Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World (London, 1779)

  Clayton, Antony, London’s Coffee Houses (London, 2003)

  Davidoff, Lenore, Family Fortunes; Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780–1850 (London, 1987)

  Fielding, John, A Plan for the Preservatory and Reformatory for the Benefit of Deserted Girls and Penitent Prostitutes (London, 1758)

  Green, John (George Henry Townsend), Evans’s Music and Supper Rooms: Odds and Ends about Covent Garden and its Vicinity (London, 1866)

  Hanway, Jonas, Thoughts on the Plan for a Magdalen House (London, 1758)

  Harvey, A.D., Sex in Georgian England (London, 2001)

  Henderson, Tony, Disorderly Women in Eighteenth Century London (London, 1999)

  Hickman, Katie, Courtesans (London, 2003)

  Hitchcock, Tim, English Sexualities, 1700–1800 (London, 1997)

  Johnston, Edith Mary, Ireland in the Eighteenth Century (Dublin, 1974)

  Kahrl, George and Stone, George Winchester, David Garrick, a Critical Biography (London, 1979)

  Kendall, Alan, David Garrick, a Biography (London, 1985)

  Lecky, W.E.H., A History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century (London, 2000)

  Linebaugh, Peter, The London Hanged; Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century (London, 1991)

  Ludovicus, M., A Particular but Melancholy Account of the Great Hardships, Difficulties and Miseries that those Unhappy and much to be Pitied Creatures, the Common Women of the Town, Are Plung’d into at this Juncture (London, 1752)

  Mannix, D.P., The Hell-Fire Club (New York, 1959)

  Moody, T.W. and Vaughan, W.E. (eds), A New History of Ireland, Eighteenth Century Ireland, 1691–1800, vol. 4 (Oxford, 19
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  Mountaigue, James, ‘The Old Bailey Chronicle’ in The Newgate Calendar (London, 1783)

  Ogle, Luke, The Natural Secret History of Both Sexes or, a Modest Defense of Public Stews (London, 1740)

  O’Connell, Sheila, London, 1753 (London, 2003)

  O’Keefe, John, Recollections of the Life of John O’Keefe, Written by Himself (London, 1836)

  Oliver, Francis, The Memoirs of Lady Hamilton (London, 1815)

  Peakman, Julie, Mighty Lewd Books (London, 2003)

  Phillips, Richard, The Memoirs of Samuel Foote, 3 vols (London, 1805)

  Picard, Liza, Dr Johnson’s London: Life in London, 1710–1770 (London, 2000)

  Porter, Roy, English Society in the Eighteenth Century (London, 1990)

  Stone, Lawrence, The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500–1800 (London, 1979)

  Thompson, Edward, The Meretriciad (London, 1765)

  Thrale, Mary (ed.), The Autobiography of Francis Place (London, 1972)

  Timbs, John, A History of Clubs and Club Life in London (London, 1886)

  Trumbach, Randolph, Sex and the Gender Revolution; Heterosexuality and the Third gender in Enlightenment London, vol. 1 (London, 1998)

  Welch, Saunders, A Proposal to Render Effectual a Plan to Remove the Nuissance of Common Prostitutes from the Streets of the Metropolis (1758)

  Valentine, Edwin (ed.), The Newgate Calendar, Comprising Interesting Memoirs of the Most Notorious Characters that have been convicted of outrages on the laws of England (London, 1928)

  Williams, Clare, Sophie in London, 1786 (London, 1933)

  Wilson, Frances, The Courtesan’s Revenge: the life of Harriet Wilson (London, 2003)

  Articles

  Nelson, T.G.A., ‘Women of Pleasure’, Eighteenth Century Life, XI, n.s., 1 (1987), pp. 181–98

  Simpson, Antony E., “‘The Mouth of Strange Women is a Deep Pit”: Male Guilt and Legal Attitudes Towards Prostitution in Georgian London’, The Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture, vol. 4, (3) (1996), pp. 50–79

  Rogers, N., ‘Carnal Knowledge: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth Century Westminster’, Journal of Social History, XXIII, 2 (1989), pp. 355–75

  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

 

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