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One Woman's Empire Built Entirely On Southwark Scandal

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One Woman's Empire Built Entirely On Southwark Scandal

Among the Stuart-era ‘stews’ of London’s seedy Southwark district, one “house of obscenitie” became renowned as the most luxurious – and notorious. Jacky Colliss Harvey charts the rise and ignominious fall of Bess Holland’s brothel

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