Some details of Priss's sorry life are given at : Born in Scotland, she was in London by 1656 and had married Edmund Fotheringham. "In the late 1650s Priss took up residence in a tavern on the corner of Whitecross and Old Street." The life of a prostitute in the 17th century can't have been any happier than in the 21st.
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Priss Fotheringham
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Priss Fotheringham
Priss Fotheringham, lived here and was ranked the second best whore in the ci...
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Jessie Craigen
Jessie Hannah Craigen was a working-class suffrage speaker. She was also a freelance (or 'paid agent') speaker in the campaigns for Irish Home Rule and the cooperative movement and against vivisect...
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Eva McLaren
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Association of Women Pharmacists
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