Taverns [ Food & Drink venues ]
… attending a play. Hogarth associates the tavern not with polite sociability, but with chaotic depraved behaviour and the sex trade. 2 . See for example The Spectator No. 49, Thursday April 26, 1711. 3 . Edward Ward, The London-Spy Compleat. In … historical evidence to support the impression that eighteenth-century taverns frequently operated as centres for the sex trade. The notorious Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies, 4 which listed the physical appearance and sexual …
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