MiniMeanderings

A snippet blog for things that interest me, which may, or may not, have anything to do with projects I'm working on.

I'm a museum curator, social historian, amateur photographer, occasional artist, baseball fan, equestrian, sarcastic princess and a whole lot of other things rolled up in a pretty nifty package.

Photo reblogged from The Stuarts
mammaviraginis:

A Bawd. A vertuous Bawd, a modest Bawd: As Shee Deserves, reproove, or else applaud. London, 1635.

A paradoxical encomium by John ‘The Water Poet’ Taylor. The ‘bawd’ was the manager of a brothel, or a more freelanced madam. In this period she was sterotypically an ex-whore who took a very ‘hands-on’ approach in luring new girls to the trade.
- bawd
- bawdy
- madam
- john taylor
- 17th century
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