To see these magnificent creatures rise from the pages of The Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladiesis an awesome thing. Where it comes to getting inside the heads of London’s ‘Votaries of Venus’, the creators, Moira Buffini and Alison Newman have truly done their homework. Harlots hits all the right notes, but I’m most captivated by the characters and how true to life these women feel their sensibilities, their attitudes, their desires, their inner conflicts, and their experiences are all so real and so searingly historically accurate. Anyone who ever thought they must have had a jolly olde tyme, or who bought into the romance of the bodice ripper would benefit by taking a good, hard look at the difficulties and complexities of what it meant to sell your body in a largely misogynistic society. The drama series, Harlots (on ITV Encore and Hulu) is currently educating viewers on the realities of life for prostitutes in eighteenth century London.
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