Covent Garden [ Institutions ]
… various coffee shops, taverns, bagnios and brothels, as well as the space of the Piazza, which was a site of political meetings and mobs. This slice of London life was presided over by the church of St Paul’s, situated at the western end of … eccentric mix of personalities, was a breeding ground for ideas and discussion.’ 6 James Boswell ’s descriptions of meeting literary figures, visiting theatres, hearing sermons in the church and sleeping with prostitutes perhaps best … was known as a cruising ground from early in the eighteenth century and there was at least one ‘molly house’, or gay meeting place, in the area. 8 5 . Tony Henderson, Disorderly Women in Eighteenth-Century: Prostitution and Control in the …
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