![]() ![]() causes her rider the most pleasing delirium’, much as one might add relish to a frozen dinner by leafing through an Egon Ronay guide. The true clientele for these directories were solitary masturbators eking out their lonely pleasures with fantasies of Eliza Booth who ‘when mounted. Such lists, as Wagner observes, were published less as practical form-books than as a sub-species of erotica designed to stimulate the imagination. Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies, published regularly between 1760 and the early 1790s, prided itself on providing up-to-date information for the sporting gentlemen of London, including full details of starting prices and hot tips for favourites. 1770) is typical of many entries from whores’ directories included by Peter Wagner in Eros Revived. The description of this prime young filly, taken from the Edinburgh publication A Genuine List of Sporting Ladies (c. ![]() Her movements are regular, her pace elegant, and her action is good: and when you mount her, she begins to f-k away to the tune of the ‘Dandy O’. ![]() Mary Fiddler, a fine blooming lass of 18, her – is like silk itself, and bubbles as white as snow she is just in her prime, and fit for business, she is broke in this spring, by a well-known gentleman of the turf. ![]()
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