GRACE DALYRYMPLE ELLIOT'S typical day as a Courtesan!
On Page 5 of Jo Manning's, MY LADY SCANDALOUS we learn that Grace may have...
After long night partying into the week hours - gaming, a masquerade? Rise at noon at her love nest in the Picadilly area, St. John's Wood or Queen Anne Street (popular areas for women to be kept) her housemaid might bring her chocolate - her servants might run a bath, a professional hairdresser - dressed by a lady's maid, her breakfast brought to her room, read the newspaper, searching for her name - read reviews of plays, balls, etc, and SCAN THE PERSONAL ADS, note books advertised for sale, decide to attend the opera or a museum exhibit, be painted by a portraitist...
She might go shopping. He pays her bills on time. She goes for fittings, riding costumes, a new carriage.
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