The Covent Garden Ladies Quotes

“Grub Street could be a graveyard for ambition, a pit of quicksand that swallowed authors whole, pulling names and the works attached to them into a well of anonymity.”
― Hallie Rubenhold, The Covent Garden Ladies: The Extraordinary Story of Harris's List

“any member by an overcharge of liquor, should in clearing her stomach, spoil any other member’s cloaths, she shall be obliged to take the same off her hands, and furnish her with new ones, or in some other manner compensate the damages’.”
― Hallie Rubenhold, The Covent Garden Ladies: The Extraordinary Story of Harris's List