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… 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 Metropolis 1730-1830 (London and New York: … (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1980), pp. 243-52. 12 . Marc Baer, Theatre and Disorder in Late Georgian London (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), chapter 2. Covent Garden was the site for the hustings …
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