The Memoirs of Mrs. Leeson, Mary Lyons (ed.) (Lilliput)

Mrs. Margaret Leeson 1727-1797 was Georgian Dublin's version of Christine Keeler or Heidi Fleiss. Her long career contained elements of both Keeler and Fleiss but, judging by her memoirs, she was more colourful and interesting than either of them. Mrs. Leeson was born into a reasonably comfortable family in County Westmeath but, following her mother's ... Read more

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