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Fanny Murray, née Fanny Rudman and later Fanny Ross, was an 18th-century English courtesan, mistress to John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich and dedicatee of the fateful Essay on Woman that led to the d
A mezzotint of Fanny Murray from a painting by Henry Robert Morland
Fanny Murray c. 1750 in a "Vandyke" fancy dress for a masquerade ball, wearing a heavily adorned "Fanny Murray cap" and a low-cut dress
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich in Istanbul, c. 1740. Sandwich's interest in the Middle East led him to found the Divan Club.
John Wilkes before the Court of King's Bench, accused of obscene libel for writing An Essay on Woman
Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies, published from 1760 to 1794, was an annual directory of prostitutes then working in Georgian London. A small pocketbook, it was printed and published in Covent G
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…own employ, but remained in poverty. While she was in London, she was noticed by Jack Harris, a famous pimp from Covent Garden and later co-author of Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies, a list of prostitutes that Harris claimed were free of venereal disease. Harris supposedly had a surgeon examine Murray to verify her claims that she…
Frontispiece and title page of 1773 edition
Engraving of Covent Garden by Sutton Nicholls, c. 1720. The Shakespeare's Head Tavern was in the northeast corner of the square (centre right), alongside the premises of infamous brothel-keepers like Jane Douglas.
Kitty Fisher by Joshua Reynolds, 1763/64. As a prominent British courtesan, Fisher is mentioned in at least one edition of Harris's List.
Harris's list; or, Cupid's London Directory, by Richard Newton, 1794