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The Courtesan's Revenge: Harriette Wilson, the Woman who Blackmailed the King
Contemporary Review, May, 2004
The Courtesan's Revenge: Harriette Wilson, the Woman who Blackmailed the King. Frances Wilson. Faber and Faber. [pounds sterling]20.00. xv + 359 pages. ISBN 0-571-20504-6. Harriette Wilson, born Harriette Dubochet (1786-1845) remains one of the most notorious women in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century English history.
A leading member of the demimonde she became famous for her Memoirs which are still in print and which make for fascinating, if not historically accurate, reading. They were her revenge on her former noble lovers who refused to pay her an adequate annuity. When she approached the Duke of Wellington he uttered the famous line, 'Publish and be damned'. In her lifetime she became, perhaps, the single most famous courtesan in London, dressed in her white muslin and courted by leading members of the nobility. She had great charm, was a notorious liar and fascinated men from the age of fourteen when she began her career. In later years she wrote two books, married, and became a Catholic. She was 'the last of the great English courtesans'.
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