Julia Johnstone

When the protector of courtesan Julia Johnstone terminated their relationship, she and HW moved into shared lodgings (they had a floor of the house each) near Bedford Square in Bloomsbury.

Among HW 's few female friends was her fellow-courtesan Julia Storer, later Johnstone , who was seduced in her teens after having grown up at the court of George III. She had five children and...

The masquerade was put on by the members of Wattier's Club . HW attended in a peasant-girl costume of red and black, accompanying Julia Johnstone , who was dressed as a boy. Harriette's sisters, Amy...

This was a high point in her career. Aged eighteen, she shared a subscription to a box at the opera with her sister Fanny and her friend Julia Johnstone , and became a well-known celebrity...

HW (who had composed but not yet issued her account of her friend Julia Johnstone 's death in 1815) was confronted with the first instalment of Johnstone's Confessions, written to confute her own Memoirs.

The apochryphal story that the Duke of Wellington returned one of Wilson's blackmailing letters with the scribbled annotation write and be d—d (universally converted by folklore to publish and be damned) originates not...