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	Harriette Wilson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Harriette Wilson [1] [2] (nee Harriette Dubochet) (February 2, 1786 – 1845) was a notorious English courtesan.
		Harriette Wilson's weakness, and her eventual downfall as a courtesan, was her practice of using flmail to extort from her benefactors.
		Harriette's principal mistake short of the flmail, it seems, was believing that she was appreciated beyond her sexual celebrity, and that those she was closest to valued her as a friend as well as a courtesan, which turned out not to be the case.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harriette_Wilson (700 words)

	Books \| Poetic licentiousness
		Harriette was a brilliantly funny writer about herself and her times and, as Frances Wilson (they are not related) puts it in this first accurate and deeply researched biography, Harriette 'formed the fantasies of her age' just as effectively as did her more 'respectable' contemporaries.
		Frances Wilson's is a critically astute approach to fantasy, however, and eschewing all Georgette Heyer-like wish-fulfilment she shows Harriette's life in all its difficulties and complexities, as well as its glamour and fun.
		Harriette's claims in her Memoirs about promises to marry her made by the doting, under-age Marquis of Worcester have been supposed to be much exaggerated, but Wilson has tracked down correspondence in the Beaufort family archive which shows that Harriette was, if anything, underplaying Worcester's infatuation with her and the extent of his commitment.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4739635-99942,00.html (546 words)

	Lecture 2004
		Harriette Wilson’s flmail of King George IV and his mistress, Lady Conyngham, was not explored until The Courtesan’s Revenge uncovered the degree to which Wilson was regarded as a threat to the state.
		More scandalous than Harriette Wilson’s career as a courtesan was her career as a writer; it was less what she said than what she did not say that caused the problem, and less problematic than what she did not say was the form in which she did not say it.
		Wilson places herself in an entirely unstable position in relation to her own story, she played with her life as a narrative construct, she rejected the pressure to define her femininity within the available terms of ‘before’ and ‘after’ her fall, or to define herself at all in relation to either context or experience.
	www.lichfieldrambler.co.uk /lec2004.htm (3224 words)

	Kissing and telling with gusto Spectator, The - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Harriette Dubouchet (Wilson was her chosen name), one of 15 children of John Dubouchet and Amelia Cook, stocking cleaners, was born on 2 February 1786 in Shepherd Market, Mayfair 'at ten minutes before 8 o'c', one of the only dates of certainty in her memoirs.
		As Harriette wrote artlessly in the unforgettable opening sentence of her memoirs, 'I shall not say why and how I became at the age of 15 the mistress of the Earl of Craven.
		Frances Wilson (no relation), author of a new biography as lively and stylish as her namesake, believes the key to Harriette's instant celebrity was her skill and good humour in deriving maximum advantage from the situation she found herself in.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_200308/ai_n9275364 (933 words)

	Telegraph \| Entertainment
		Naughty Harriette Wilson also suffered from ennui in the course of duty, especially when "in keeping" with her first protector, Lord Craven, who used to spend the evening drawing pictures for her amusement to illustrate his campaigns.
		But Frances Wilson's most important revelation is the account of the extraordinary publishing history of the scandalous Memoirs, how Harriette used them to flmail her famous lovers, including the King himself, making them pay to have their names omitted, and how the book was promoted and sold by its unscrupulous publisher, John Joseph Stockdale.
		Ms Wilson is excellent, too, on Harriette's later years, her marriage to a flashy chancer younger than herself, and her final dual career as lady of letters and procurer of young female flesh for wealthy gentlemen.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/08/17/bohic17.xml&sSheet=/arts/2003/08/17/bomain.html (1009 words)

	Amazon.com: The Courtesan's Revenge: Harriette Wilson, the Woman Who Blackmailed the King: Books: Frances Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Harriette's beauty was a rare sight to behold when many women, even of a young age were disfigured with pox marks or the loss of their teeth and any of the other multitude of diseases prevalent at the time.
		Harriette Wilson (1786-1845) was among last of the great courtesans and became one of the most notorious when, foiled in collecting annuities that had been promised to her by several gentlemen in her retirement, she published her "Memoirs" with the intention of flmailing virtually every man who had visited her boudoir.
		Harriette Wilson took liberties with dates and details in her "Memoirs", but many of the events can be verified by secondary sources.
	www.amazon.com /Courtesans-Revenge-Harriette-Wilson-Blackmailed/dp/0571205046 (1325 words)

	Amazon.ca: Harriette Wilson's Memoirs: Books: Leslie Blanch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Chief among them was Harriette Wilson, whose patrons included most of the distinguished men of the day, from the Duke of Wellington to Lord Byron.
		She held court in a box at the opera, attended by statesmen, poets, national heroes, aristocrats, members of the beau monde, and students who hoped to be immortalised by her glance.
		Harriette Wilson's Memoirs These are the memoirs of the reigning courtesan of Regency London whose patrons included most of the distinguished men of her day, from the Duke of Wellington to Lord Byron.
	www.amazon.ca /Harriette-Wilsons-Memoirs-Leslie-Blanch/dp/1842126326 (337 words)

	Anecdotage.com - people Wilson anecdote. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		While speaking at a rally in the mid-1960s, Edmund Wilson was interrupted by a h...
		Carnie Wilson, not noted for her slender physique, was often asked about her mus...
		Carnie Wilson was often asked about her musical inspirations.
	www.anecdotage.com /browse.php?category=people&who=Wilson (816 words)

	Fern House - Fern House Books - Harriette Wilson - Lady of Pleasure
		I remember when I first heard of Harriette Wilson thirty years ago, it was like hearing gossip about a contemporary, not historical facts from the dusty archive of the past.
		Harriette Wilson was the Duke of Wellington's mistress and when she was planning to publish her memoirs and tried to flmail him, he replied: 'Publish and be damned!' You never forget such anecdotes - even though, as Valerie Grosvenor Myer shows, that particular one is unlikely to be literally true.
		But Harriette was a real person, not a literary creation, and her story could not have been more triumphantly unzipped, or more shamelessly and enjoyably displayed.
	www.fernhouse.com /book-pages/harrietteintro.html (606 words)

	Courtesan's Revenge, The (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A reading from FRANCEs Wilson's new biography of Harriette Wilson, courtesan extraordinaire, who slept her way through fashionable LONDON society in the early 1800s and then wrote a book about it, prompting the Duke of Wellington to coin the phrase: 'publish - and be damned'.
		The story of Harriette Wilson, who slept her way through fashionable LONDON in the 19th century and then wrote a book about her experiences.
		FRANCEs Wilson's biography of Harriette Wilson, who slept her way through fashionable LONDON in the early 19th century.
	www.radiolistings.co.uk /programmes/courtesan_s_revenge__the.html (168 words)

	Gabby Harlot -- Monday, Jun. 22, 1936 -- Page 1 -- TIME
		But as Harriette Wilson she traveled with the big names of a bad age, and her observation thereof has clinched for her the dubious honor of being the most articulate British prostitute.
		Harriette, even when her professional career was in full flower, had wanted to be a writer.
		When she slapped out the 250,000 words of her Memoirs for a despicable purpose, writing about the life she knew best in language that was appropriate to it, she revealed a genuine literary ability, a keen sense of character, a sharp eye for the stupidities of the gentlemen who had been her friends and customers.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,756391,00.html (452 words)

	New Statesman - Commentary
		Harriette Wilson's Memoirs did for the Regency period what Piers Morgan's diaries did for the 1990s: they caught the era with its trousers down and sold by the sackful.
		Somewhat more dramatically, Wilson scored through names and events as and when she was paid to do so, and inflated the status of various characters according to their treatment of her.
		I would have been no more able to reward Harriette Wilson in 1825 for the pleasure given by her writing than I could Piers Morgan in 2005 for the pleasure afforded by his.
	www.newstatesman.com /200601230049 (860 words)

	Fern House - Fern House Books - Harriette Wilson - Lady of Pleasure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Harriette Wilson's scandalous memoirs were the sensation of 1825.
		This is the first biography of Harriette Wilson for over 60 years.
		Based on the unbowdlerised version of her own earthy but sparkling text, it reveals a spicy pot-pourri of the high-rolling, promiscuous Regency society, with its dandies, gamblers, eccentrics, swindlers, pugilists and procurers, and the 'demireps' of whom Harriette was uncrowned queen.
	www.fernhouse.com /book-pages/harriette.html (218 words)

	An English Courtesan
		The case of Harriette Wilson, a beautiful courtesan of the Regency shows this to be true.
		Although Harriette married later the marriage was unhappy and she probably never really got over the handsome lord who loved to wander in the parks with his Newfoundland dog.
		Harriette sounds like an interesting and witty woman, the kind of person who might well have a high-flying career if she lived today.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/british_social_history/104873 (419 words)

	Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Harriette Wilson was born 1786 in London by the name of Harriette Dubochet.
		Wilson found the Duke dreadfully annoying, dull, and desperate for her attention.
		At the age of thirty-five, Wilson retired from being a prostitute, "moved to Paris, married, and settled down to a literary career" (www.jazzbabies 2).
	m.faculty.umkc.edu /mallinickd/romanticnovel/kroone/Biography.html (339 words)

	Harriette Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The sharp pen of Harriette Wilson made a public laughing stock of him.
		Harriette Dubochet was born in London, the daughter of a Swiss clock maker.
		Harriette's response was to add even more material on him.
	www.jazzbabies.com /home/wilson.htm (350 words)

	Faber & Faber - Book Detail
		Harriette Wilson was the most desired and the most dangerous woman in Regency London.
		Born in 1786, by the time she was fifteen Harriette was well on her way to becoming England's most sought-after courtesan.
		In a biography of tremendous style and energy, Frances Wilson makes use of previously unseen letters, law reports and confidential Government correspondence to reveal for the first time the spectacular true story of the sexual celebrity who flmailed the British aristocracy and held even the king to ransom.
	www.faber.co.uk /book_detail.html?bid=34721 (203 words)

	Harriette Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Harriette Wilson, a beautiful English courtesan, lived a very interesting life.
		harriette wilson • lord ponsonby • duke of wellington • regency
		iron duke • duke of wellington • waterloo • napoleon • harriette wilson
	www.suite101.com /reference/harriette_wilson (45 words)

	Harriette Wilson's Memoirs: The Memoirs of the Reigning Courtesan of Regency London : Samuel Beckett Centenary 2006 ...
		Harriette Wilson's Memoirs: The Memoirs of the Reigning Courtesan of Regency London : Samuel Beckett Centenary 2006 Ireland Europe France: Irish Literature:
		Harriette is very open, rather sweet and at times just a little too humble.
		She paints a picture of the courtesan life which shows just how open their role was, and yet how much they lived in a parallel world to that of the real Regency folk of the Ton.
	www.beckettcentenary.com /literature-276588-1842126326-Harriette_Wilsons_Memoirs_The_Memoirs_of_the_Reigning_Courtesan_of_Regency_London.html (311 words)

	harriette - TRAVEL GUIDE \| VACATIONS \| TIMESHARES \| DISCOUNT CRUISES \| AIRFARE \| WORLD TRAVEL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Harry T. & Harriette V. Moore Cultural Complex, Inc., a 501 (c)3 not-for-profit corporation, was formed to enhance the development and operation of the...
		Harriette Gillem Robinet in her backyard in Oak Park...
		The BMI Foundation/Harriette Schiff Roth Scholarship was established in 2003 by the family of the late Harriette R oth, a Lakewood, N.J. reside nt, and wife and mother, respectively, of former Jackson...
	www.etravelnow.us /search.php?q=harriette (189 words)

	Correction: actually meant Harriette Wilson not Harriet N/t (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The impression I got from Harriet Wilson's memoirs is that infidelity was not a big issue among the aristocracy as long as one was discreet.
		I think romantic love and infidelity outside of marriage is the natural outcome of arranged marriages, the author of the introduction of Wilson's memoirs even comments on that in the preface, that the profession of the courtesan was dying out when in the 20th century people could freely choose their life partners.
		He of all people declines an offer of the most desired courtesan Harriette because he is engaged in a love affair with another lady which sets him off against the other Regency lords who apparently have no such qualms.
	www.hwforums.com /2034/messages/40605.html (1221 words)

	The Scotsman - Critique - Paperbacks of the week
		FAME, gossip, sex, power and the struggle of a woman to succeed against the odds provide ample page-turning thrills in Wilson’s biography of Harriette Wilson, the top high-society call girl of the age who turned flmailer against the aristocrats who sought to bring her down, to explosive effect.
		Before she was out of her teens, Harriette was already queen of the lusty underbelly of London, with dukes, lords, future prime-ministers and the Prince of Wales among the notches on her bedpost.
		Luckily, her writing remained as proof and Wilson’s tribute to her unique quest for liberation should ensure that her scandalous, yet inspiring, reputation lives on.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /critique.cfm?id=378222004 (396 words)

	Alphonso "Buddy" Wilson, Canal Zone firefighter and New York fire inspector
		Buddy Wilson, born in the city of Panama, brought up in the old Canal Zone townsite of La Boca, graduated from the La Boca Occupational High School in 1955.
		He was another of the originals of the 1956 firefighters, trained and worked on the Pacific side, he was a very precise worker, as a Driver Operator, he knew all the operational proceedures of the fire engine and could explain all in simple words to the rookies, who he was always willing to help.
		Harriette Wilson, his children, Luanna Straker, Ronna Worrell, Arturo Wilson and Ilka Chavez.
	www.thepanamanews.com /pn/v_12/issue_12/community_05.html (328 words)

	Whore Biographies, 1700-1825 published by Pickering & Chatto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The second part focuses on the genre of courtesans’ autobiographies, on the little-known memoirs of Harriette Wilson, Julia Johnstone and Mrs Leeson.
		These autobiographies express the views of the women themselves: what they thought of their paramours; the sexual double standard; their jealousies; their friends; of chastity and infidelity.
		Harriette Wilson, The Interesting and Amorous Adventures of Harriette Wilson (1825) reset from 4 volumes including ‘A commentary on the licentious Liberty of the Press: in which the recent publication, entitled ‘Memoirs of Harriette Wilson’ is severely censured’ plus letters from Harriette to her publisher reprinted in his paper ‘Stockdale’s Budget’ (undated)
	www.pickeringchatto.com /whorebiographies.htm (730 words)

	George Arents Collection, NYPL
		The author was apparently successful in obtaining money, as she went to Jamaica and married several times, by means of what she extracted from her victims, including her first husband.
		Phillips was followed in the nineteenth century by Harriette Wilson, whose roster of wealthy and exalted admirers was even more extensive than her predecessor's.
		The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson are scandalous and frequently hilarious; the conversations reported therein and the incidents described are spirited and diverting.
	www.nypl.org /research/chss/spe/rbk/arents/parts3.html (2325 words)

	Wilson Coat of Arms, Family Crest
		The ancient Viking-Scottish name Wilson is derived from the personal name William, and means "son of William" or "son of Wil."
		Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: John Wilson, who settled in Virginia in 1623; Christopher Wilson, a Scotch prisoner sent to Boston in 1651; Andrew Wilson, who arrived in New England in 1651.
		A Brief Account of the Wilsons by Emery Small Wilson, The DeMay Family and the Wilson Family by Ida DeMay Wilson, The Family of Samuel & Jean Love Wilson by Sara Stewart Hinckley.
	www.houseofnames.com /coatofarms_details.asp?sId=&s=Wilson (1249 words)

	The Courtesan's Revenge: Harriette Wilson, the Woman who Blackmailed the King Contemporary Review - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Courtesan's Revenge: Harriette Wilson, the Woman who Blackmailed the King.
		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.
	www.looksmartpop.com /p/articles/mi_m2242/is_1660_284/ai_n6061002 (231 words)

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