The Darling Strumpet. Gillian Bagwell

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Название The Darling Strumpet
Автор произведения Gillian Bagwell
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      The Darling Strumpet

      Gillian Bagwell

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       Copyright

      AVON

      An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 77–85 Fulham Palace Road Hammersmith, London W6 8JB

       www.harpercollins.co.uk

      First published in the U.S.A. by Berkley Publishing Group, an imprint of Penguin Group (U.S.A.) Inc., New York, NY, 2011

      Published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2011

      Copyright © Gillian Bagwell 2011

      Gillian Bagwell asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

      All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.

      Source ISBN: 9781847562500

      Ebook Edition © JUNE 2011 ISBN: 9780007443307 Version: 2014-07-23

       Dedication

      This book is dedicated to my family:

       My sisters Rachel Hope Crossman and Jennifer Juliet Walker My father Richard Herbold Bagwell And the memory of my mother Elizabeth Rosaria Loverde

       Epigraph

      She’s now the darling strumpet of the crowd,

      Forgets her state, and talks to them aloud,

      Lays by her greatness and descends to prate

      With those ’bove whom she’s rais’d by wond’rous fate.

      From “A Panegyrick Upon Nelly”

      Anonymous, 1681

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

      Copyright

       Dedication

       Epigraph

      Cast of Characters

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Chapter Seven

      Chapter Eight

      Chapter Nine

      Chapter Ten

      Chapter Eleven

      Chapter Twelve

      Chapter Thirteen

      Chapter Fourteen

      Chapter Fifteen

      Chapter Sixteen

      Chapter Seventeen

      Chapter Eighteen

      Chapter Nineteen

      Chapter Twenty

      Chapter Twenty-One

      Chapter Twenty-Two

      Chapter Twenty-Three

      Chapter Twenty-Four

      Chapter Twenty-Five

      Chapter Twenty-Six

      Chapter Twenty-Seven

      Chapter Twenty-Eight

      Chapter Twenty-Nine

      Chapter Thirty

      Chapter Thirty-One

      Acknowledgments

      Notes On Facts, Truth, And Artistic Licence

      About the Author

      About the Publisher

      CAST OF CHARACTERS

      NELL’S FAMILY

      Eleanor Gwynn – Nell’s mother.

      Rose Gwynn – Nell’s older sister.

      Charles Beauclerk, Earl of Burford and Duke of St. Albans, referred to as Charlie – Nell’s first son.

      James, Lord Beauclerk, referred to as Jemmy – Nell’s second son.

      John Cassells – Rose’s first husband.

      Guy Foster – Rose’s second husband.

      Lily – Rose’s baby girl.

      MADAM ROSS’S

      Madam Ross – keeper of a brothel in Lewkenor’s Lane.

      Jack – Madam Ross’s lover and bouncer at the brothel.

      Jane – one of Madam Ross’s girls.

      Ned – barman in the taproom.

      Robbie Duncan – a regular client of Nell.

      Jimmy Cade – an early regular client of Nell.

      THE THEATRE

      Charles Hart – leading actor, shareholder, and one of the managers of The King’s Company. Nell’s mentor and teacher.

      John Lacy – leading actor, shareholder, and one of the managers of The King’s Company. Nell’s mentor and teacher.

      Michael Mohun – leading actor, shareholder, and one of the managers of The King’s Company.

      Walter Clun, also known as Wat – leading actor and shareholder in the King’s Comp any, specializing in character roles. Agrees to teach Nell to act.

      Thomas Killigrew – founder and patent-holder of The King’s Company and a supporter and intimate of King Charles.

      Betsy Knepp – actress in the King’s company. A friend of Nell and of Samuel Pepys.

      Katherine Mitchell Corey, also referred to as Kate – actress in the King’s Company, specialising in character roles.

      Dicky One-Shank – old sailor and scenekeeper at the Theatre Royal.

      Harry