Covent Garden [ Institutions ]
… elections occurred, inspiring many satirical artists. Places > Institutions Mots-clés Coffeehouses Commerce Market Prostitution Theatre Covent Garden is a square in the centre of London, still famous for its market and surrounding … 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: Longman, 1999), pp. 58-60. 6 . Hallie … a clear push for exclusivity by the theatre proprietors. Yet the boxes continued to suffer from their association with prostitution. 10 Nevertheless, a rigid system of social separation was imposed by increasing tariffs, the ‘mob’ …
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