Covent Garden [ Institutions ]
… actors, traders, writers and prostitutes. Covent Garden was also the place where the rowdy hustings for the Westminster elections occurred, inspiring many satirical artists. Places > Institutions Keywords Coffeehouses Commerce Market … (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), chapter 2. Covent Garden was the site for the hustings in the fractious parliamentary elections for the borough constituency of Westminster. Westminster had a broad franchise for the eighteenth century – the … actors, traders, writers and prostitutes. Covent Garden was also the place where the rowdy hustings for the Westminster elections occurred, inspiring many satirical artists. … Harvey, Charles, Green, Edmund M. and Corfield, Penelope J., The …
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