Fr—d—r—ck can be found at No. Mck—z— of No. Although contemporary reports estimate that the list sold as many as eight thousand copies a year, it is now extremely rare, with just a few copies from a handful of years surviving. Even assuming the descriptions are of real people, or at least based on real people, Aspin points out that eighty-six ladies the tally in the edition; the total varies from year to year is an infinitesimal fraction of the total number of prostitutes in London at the time, which is estimated to have been more than sixty thousand, or one in five women in the city.
This raises the question of how the lucky eighty-six were selected. Certainly, Mrs. Perhaps the most striking comparison to be made, however, is between the licentious chaos of Georgian London and the Internet.
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