HW
first encountered, walking by night in a romantically furtive manner, a man who proved to be William Henry Rochfort
, an Irish colonel, out without leave from the Fleet Prison
, where he was...
Family and Intimate relationships
Harriette Wilson
HW
and William Henry Rochfort
announced that they had been married in the Fleet Prison
in London.
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003.
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Literary responses
Harriette Wilson
HW
's book was dubbed a disgusting and gross prostitution of the press
Student of the Inner Temple,. A Commentary on the Licentious Liberty of the Press. 1825.
21
the same year in A Commentary on the Licentious Liberty of the Press, by a Student of the Inner Temple...
Material Conditions of Writing
Harriette Wilson
The most important difference between the Memoirs of Harriette Wilson and their predecessors, the Sketches, was that the Memoirs were to give names in full. The contract between HW
and Stockdale
stipulated that he...
