The Courtesan Actress and the Press
For a number of weeks I have been studying and charting the coverage given to the ‘frail sisterhood’ in the gossip rags of 18th…
Bird of Paradise
George the Third’s Birthday Ball, 1783
‘The Carmelite, Laylock, Pea-green, and Pink were the most fashionable colours.’ In the January of 1783, Sarah Maria Adcock also known as Mrs…