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There is no extant attestation for the third member of Awa's coven, Monique, a female brothel-keeper who wants to be a gunner and gets her chance at the 1522 Battle of La Bicocca, where the Swiss pikemen marched to their first decisive defeat, by powder and shot.
The Enterprise of Death Tom Shippey 2011
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Pericles is without doubt a very silly play, probably Shakespeare's silliest (and the silly bits are shared evenly between the bits he wrote and the bits by brothel-keeper and part-time playwright George Wilkins).
Susan Boyle fastfwd 2009
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Kate Peach, alone in the world after her family died in the plague, is trying to earn a living at her craft of glove-making, but her survival in Southwark depends on the protection of the villainous Hugh Traylor and the rough friendship of the brothel-keeper Mary Frith based on a real historical figure who was the prototype for Moll Cutpurse.
The Firemaster’s Mistress, by Christie Dickason. Book review Carla 2010
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Kate Peach, alone in the world after her family died in the plague, is trying to earn a living at her craft of glove-making, but her survival in Southwark depends on the protection of the villainous Hugh Traylor and the rough friendship of the brothel-keeper Mary Frith based on a real historical figure who was the prototype for Moll Cutpurse.
The battle of Arfderydd or Arthuret Carla 2010
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Kate Peach, alone in the world after her family died in the plague, is trying to earn a living at her craft of glove-making, but her survival in Southwark depends on the protection of the villainous Hugh Traylor and the rough friendship of the brothel-keeper Mary Frith based on a real historical figure who was the prototype for Moll Cutpurse.
Archive 2010-02-01 Carla 2010
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The newlyweds then moved out and became tenants of George Wilkins, a brothel-keeper and occasional playwright, with whom Shakespeare was collaborating on Pericles.
Supreme Court Meme nwhyte 2008
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A quick look among my bookshelves at home produced a shortlist of six see post - ranging from a 'wrist-slashing' depression-bringer, to a bisexual detective yarn and the memoirs of an amateur brothel-keeper.
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A quick look among my bookshelves at home produced a shortlist of six see post - ranging from a 'wrist-slashing' depression-bringer, to a bisexual detective yarn and the memoirs of an amateur brothel-keeper.
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William Donaldson's Both the Ladies and the Gentlemen, 1975, the memoir of an amateur brothel-keeper starring police officers, lawyers and editors alongside Disgusting Deirdre and Carwash Carol: the funniest book I had ever read, or so I thought at the time.
Books 2009
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William Donaldson's Both the Ladies and the Gentlemen, 1975, the memoir of an amateur brothel-keeper starring police officers, lawyers and editors alongside Disgusting Deirdre and Carwash Carol: the funniest book I had ever read, or so I thought at the time.
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