Mistress Manifesto

Emma did not shyly wait around for a proposal like an 18th century woman was supposed to do. She told Sir William Hamilton that she loved hi...

1787 Amy Lyon, born into the poorest of the poor, because her mother was a Mistress, was able to develop into a beauty, but her rough and bu...

1786 Naples was the third largest city in Europe after London and Paris and a playground for the rich. There were glamorous parties, operas,...

And then she met the one...  But it did not start out as expected. Amy Lyon had accepted to be called Mrs. Emma Hart while the Mistress of C...

  She was afraid... Maybe she had not used contraception or he had not wanted her to or she was unlucky. Or maybe she had hoped to make Sir ...

1780ish. Madam Kelly had been a prostitute herself, as young as the age of ten when she started. She became a Madam who made her prostitutes...

Image from New York Public Library The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs

1778-1779ish While a servant in London for the Budd's, the thirteen year old Emma Hamilton met another servant - Jane Powell - who want...

England's Mistress is a beautifully written book by Kate Williams that was a delight to read, beginning with the descriptions of life i...