Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0017533, Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:34:55 -0500

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Re: THOUGHTS: Charlotte Hayes in LO
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MC: Your revelations concerning Charlotte Hayes are interesting indeed. Now that I've done some Googling, I see that CH was "the most famous madam of her day" and particularly was known for her stable of "Nymphs." Here are a few links of interest:

Here, we see CH taking in Emily Warren, a girl not quite twelve years old, and making her part of her brothel:
http://books.google.com/books?id=v5o9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA277&dq=%22charlotte+hayes%22&lr=&ei=9tpXSd_YH5X8ygSWjP2IBw#PPA277,M1

http://books.google.com/books?id=v5o9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA277&dq=%22charlotte+hayes%22&lr=&ei=9tpXSd_YH5X8ygSWjP2IBw#PPA277,M1

And a poem:
http://books.google.com/books?id=XwwUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA128&dq=%22charlotte+hayes%22&lr=&ei=_t1XSaiLDYfCzgTsm9i3DQ

As for the source of the French text, it seem likely that it is this:
Nocturnal Revels or, The History of King's Place and other Modern Nunneries, 2 vols. London: Printed by M. Goadby, 1779.
See here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=RJNBaEYYsp8C&pg=PA186&dq=%22nocturnal+revels%22&lr=&ei=sd5XSanWIYagyATnot3SDQ#PPA161,M1

and:
http://books.google.com/books?id=RJNBaEYYsp8C&pg=PA186&dq=%22nocturnal+revels%22&lr=&ei=sd5XSanWIYagyATnot3SDQ#PPA186,M1

Matt Roth



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