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100 1  White, Barbara,|d1952-|eauthor. 
245 10 Queen of the Courtesans :|bFanny Murray /|cBarbara White. 
264  1 [Place of publication not identified] :|bThe History Press,
       |c[2014] 
264  4 |c©2014 
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520    The gripping story of an early media celebrity, and her 
       journey from rags to riches and back again, via 
       prostitutionFanny Murray (1729-1770) was a famous Georgian
       beauty and courtesan, desired throughout England and often
       to be found pressed to a gentleman's heart in the form of 
       a printed disc secretly tucked into their pocket-watch. 
       She rose from life in the "London stews" (brothels) to 
       fame and fortune, through her career as a high-class 
       courtesan. Her Memoirs (the first "whore 
       biography"—included in this book) records her eventful 
       life in detail. She was seduced and then abandoned, aged 
       just 12, by Jack Spencer, grandson of Sarah, Duchess of 
       Marlborough. Her luck turned when she caught the eye of 
       the infamous Beau Nash, "King of Bath." But it was her 
       return to London that promoted her to national fame and 
       notoriety. After 10 years at the top, she was heavily in 
       debt, and after some devious manipulation of the 
       Marlborough family, she managed to secure an arranged 
       marriage to a respectable man. The scandals of her past 
       caught up with her as she was named in the national 
       scandal surrounding Wilke's pornography case at the High 
       Court. 
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600 10 Murray, Fanny,|d1729-1778. 
650  0 Mistresses|zEngland|vBiography. 
650  0 Courtesans|zEngland|vBiography. 
650  7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical.|2bisacsh 
651  0 Great Britain|xHistory|yGeorge II, 1727-1760. 
655  0 Electronic books. 
776 08 |iPrint version:|aWhite, Barbara, 1952-|tQueen of the 
       Courtesans.|dStroud, Gloucestershire : The History Press, 
       2014.|z9780752468693|w(DLC)2015513959 
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