This week's episode takes us to the bawdy streets of 18th-century London. Grace explores the history and cultural impact of "Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies," a notorious directory that rated and reviewed the city's prostitutes. Learn about the key figures behind its creation, the social dynamics of Covent Garden, and how this publication offers a unique glimpse into the lives of women who shaped the era. 

Sources used: Covent Garden Ladies  [https://www.amazon.com/The-Covent-Garden-Ladies/dp/1784165956/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3OASIAPTMEN62&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.uTz3mhrlKl4sgVzp66v68a8szXfDcx6XSFs85fP_GDwjl_2L-1ZnRW2hHNdnN3wuzCJEXRpPH7dRu_xZR8o26aOt91wpMr_dsHURSaN3Z8At0NkegK6vECJetrqBC0lpzBJ_RPnqyfdghtAf2fOPbpY9ogtAelyrL50vjKBhnnbAtoGoBh10pFMk0d_altwoQ2uGennoLMCRa9gV8QwRyZImlTjnTIcgBOAaqA38Gh0.ARpCoY3a8-iOzE4HvbPS9HmSQOca1T4X3qdHQzmgzGU&dib_tag=se&keywords=covent+garden+ladies&qid=1752718857&sprefix=covent+garde%2Caps%2C142&sr=8-1]

Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies, 1788 [https://www.amazon.com/Harriss-List-Covent-Garden-Ladies-ebook/dp/B0091TR5YK/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3OASIAPTMEN62&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.uTz3mhrlKl4sgVzp66v68a8szXfDcx6XSFs85fP_GDwjl_2L-1ZnRW2hHNdnN3wuzCJEXRpPH7dRu_xZR8o26aOt91wpMr_dsHURSaN3Z8At0NkegK6vECJetrqBC0lpzBJ_RPnqyfdghtAf2fOPbpY9ogtAelyrL50vjKBhnnbAtoGoBh10pFMk0d_altwoQ2uGennoLMCRa9gV8QwRyZImlTjnTIcgBOAaqA38Gh0.ARpCoY3a8-iOzE4HvbPS9HmSQOca1T4X3qdHQzmgzGU&dib_tag=se&keywords=covent+garden+ladies&qid=1752718857&sprefix=covent+garde%2Caps%2C142&sr=8-2]





Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies: an 18th Yelp Review for Harlots 

This week's episode takes us back the city of Edinburgh during the year 1828. Grace explores the end of Burke and Hare story and how their murder spree would go on to change not only the city of Edinburgh but medical history forever. Additionally it shows the true meaning of Karma's a B*tch  

Sources mentioned:  Anatomy of Murders by Lisa Rosner  [https://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Murders-Spectacular-Edinburghs-Commission/dp/0812221761]

Trial of William Burke and Helen M'Dougal   [https://wellcomecollection.org/works/bzaxh2d2]

Supplement to the Trial of William Burke [https://wellcomecollection.org/works/fedyf7yd] 

Bodies and Bureaucracy [https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.24794]

Burke & Hare: Murders for Medicine, Part 2 

This week's episode takes us to the winding streets of Edinburgh in 1828 to follow the Case of the Notorious serial killers William Burke & William Hare. Grace explores how the the rising medical culture of 19th century Edinburgh created the perfect environment for these two men to kill 16 people and then sell the bodies to surgeons. 



Sources mentioned:  Anatomy of Murders by Lisa Rosner  [https://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Murders-Spectacular-Edinburghs-Commission/dp/0812221761]

Trial of William Burke and Helen M'Dougal   [https://wellcomecollection.org/works/bzaxh2d2]

Supplement to the Trial of William Burke [https://wellcomecollection.org/works/fedyf7yd]

Burke & Hare: Murders for Medicine, Part 1 

This week's episode takes us to colonial Louisiana and Paris during the period 1718 -1721. Grace looks to break down the the true story of who the Casket Girls were, the horrid treatment they faced in the French Prison system and then in the erasure of their story. Hear about just who the founding women of Louisiana really were! 



Sources mentioned: 

 * Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast  [https://www.amazon.com/Mutinous-Women-Convicts-Founding-Mothers/dp/1541600584]
 * Bienville’s Brides: Virgins or Prostitutes? 1719-1721 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/26564828]



Who Were the Casket Girls? 

Grace is a forever a lover of history, so much so that she went back to school to get her master's in it. This week's episode takes us back to the years 1849-1855 to the heart of the Gold Rush in San Francisco. Following the life of one of the most successful Madams of the city during this period: Madam Belle Cora, Grace explores just how fast Belle and similar women rose in society and just how fast they could fall. 

Sources mentioned : 

 * The Fair but Frail: Prostitution in San Francisco by Jacqueline Barnhart
 * They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush by JoAnn Levvy
 * Dispossessed Lives by Marisa Fuentes 
 * Trinity Journal Feb. 2 1856, coming from the S. F bulletin
 * S. F. Bulletin 
 * The Annals of San Francisco; by Frank Soulé 

Madam Belle Cora: Influencer of the West 

Follow Grace each week as she dives into the history of sex, death, and everything in between. Every episode she will take a look into the archives and sources looking to peel back the curtains of the past to show that history is not just something of dates and numbers. But of gossip, intrigue, and most importantly relatability. Showing that the stories that often got cast to the side and hidden, are actually the most interesting of all. 

Grace Ardis

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