The Lady In Red: An Eighteenth-Century Tale Of Sex, Scandal, And Divorce

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by Hallie Rubenhold


  Italy see also names of places

  Jersey, Lady

  Jersey, Lord

  Johnson, Dr

  Johnstone, Jack

  Jones, Lucetta

  Kearsley, George

  Kelly, Michael

  Kemble, John Philip

  Kensington Gardens

  Keppel, Mrs

  King’s Place, London

  King’s Royal Rifle Corps

  Kingston

  Kingston, Duchess of

  Kitchin, Henry

  Knaresborough

  Kneller, Godfrey

  Knight, Richard Payne

  Knighton

  Kremlin

  Kritchev

  La Tour du Pin, Madame de

  Ladies’ Coterie (Female Coterie)

  Lake Geneva

  Lamb, Roger

  Langdale, Marmaduke

  Lascelles, Daniel

  Lascelles, Edwin, later 1st Baron Harewood

  Lausanne

  Lauzan, Duke of

  Le Clere, Monsieur

  Lee, John ‘Honest Jack’

  Leeds

  Leeds Mercury

  Lely, Peter

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Lessendrum

  Letter to a Young Noble Man on a Variety of Subjects, A

  Leversuch, Richard

  Leversuch, Mrs

  Lewes: the Worsleys in; departure of Lady Worsley and Bisset from; discovery of disappearance of Lady Worsley and Bisset from 68–72; brief references

  Lewis, W.S.

  Liaisons Dangereuses, Les

  Ligonier, Edward, 2nd Earl of

  Ligonier, Lady Penelope

  Lille

  Lincoln’s Inn

  Lisbon

  Locke (Lady Ligonier’s lover)

  London: Lady Betty Worsley re-establishes herself in; property purchased for Sir Richard and Lady Worsley in; early married life of the Worsleys in; South Hampshire militia in; Lady Worsley spends confinement in; Bisset plans to elope with Lady Worsley to; Lady Worsley asks for clothes to be sent to; Lady Worsley and Bisset at Royal Hotel in; Sir Richard Worsley sets out for; Mary Sotheby refuses to take clothes to; Worsley v. Bisset trial in see Worsley v. Bisset trial; presssee also names of publications; establishments with rooms for lovers; trial transcripts published in; print sellers’ shops; theatre; Lady Worsley lives in less salubrious area of; Lady Worsley returns from abroad to; brief references; see also names of locations in London

  London Chronicle

  Louis XVI, King

  Louis, Victor

  Lyddel, Richard

  Lymington

  Madrid

  Mahon, Gertrude ‘The Bird of Paradise’

  Mahon, Gilbreath

  Maidstone; incident at baths

  Maidstone Bath, The, or The Modern Susanna

  Maidstone Whim, The

  Maldon, Lord

  Mann, Horace

  Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, Lord Chief Justice

  Marat, Jean Paul

  Marquiset, Alfred

  Marriott, Mary

  Marylebone

  Mayfair

  Megara

  Melbourne, Lady

  Melbourne, Lord

  Memoirs of Sir Finical Whimsy, The

  Meyler (or Naylor), Mrs

  Meynell, Mrs

  Midhurst

  Mitcham

  Molyneux, Lady

  Monmouth, Battle of

  Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

  Monthly Review

  Mordaunt, Charles Henry, 5th Earl of Peterborough see Peterborough, Charles Henry Mordaunt, 5th Earl of

  Mordaunt, Harriot (later Harriot Bisset)

  More, Hannah

  Morning Herald: on possibility of reconciliation between Sir Richard and Lady Worsley; scandal and gossip as subject matter of; on Worsley v. Bisset trial; on the demand for trial transcripts; on plaque at Lady Worsley’s address; on Lady Worsley’s beaux; on ball organised by Lady Worsley; on Lady Worsley’s drinking; and An Epistle from Lady Worsley to Sir Richard Worsley; bribed by Sir Richard; on Lady Worsley’s riding; fewer reports on Lady Worsley; on break-up of relationship between Lady Worsley and Bisset; on Lady Worsley’s relationship with Byers

  Morning Post: on Bisset’s appearance and manner; on women’s dress at Coxheath; on relationship between Lady Worsley and Bisset; scandal and gossip as subject matter of; on visit of Lady Worsley and Bisset to theatre; on Variety; and An Epistle from Lady Worsley to Sir Richard Worsley; bribed by Sir Richard Worsley; fewer reports on Lady Worsley

  Morris, Gouverneur

  Morritt, John

  Mortimer, J: A Trip to Cocks Heath

  Moscow

  Mountford, Lord

  Murray, William, Earl of Mansfield see Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of

  Naples

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Nelson, Lord

  ‘New Female Coterie, The’; use of title

  Newman Street, London

  Newmarket

  Newport

  Newton

  Newton, Catherine

  Newtown

  Nile, River

  Nocturnal Revels

  North, Francis

  North, Lord

  Northington, Earl of

  Norton, Caroline

  Nottinghamshire Militia

  Oglander, Sir William

  Old Sarum

  Oldfield, T.B.H.

  Orleans, Louis Philippe, Duke of (later Philippe Égalité)

  Osborn, Dr William

  Otranto

  Ottoman Empiresee also names of countries

  Oxford; Christ Church; Corpus Christi

  Paddington

  Paduano, Alessandro

  Paestum

  Palace of Balkisa

  Palais du Louvre, Paris

  Palais Royal, Paris

  Palazzo Querini, Venice

  Palmerini, Madame (Countess d’Amey)

  Pamela

  Paris; Lady Worsley in; Sir Richard Worsley in

  Paris Commune

  Parliament; parliamentary divorce

  Parthenon

  Particulars of the Late Dick England by an Old Crony, The

  Passy

  Pechell, Samuel

  Pelham, Miss

  Pelopnnesian islands

  Pembroke, Lady

  Pera

  Percy, Lord Algernon

  Père Lachaise cemetery

  Peterborough, Charles Henry Mordaunt, 5th Earl of

  Petersfield, Lord

  Petworth

  Philippe Égalité see Orleans, Louis Philippe, Duke of

  Pitt, Anne

  Pitt, George, later 2nd Baron Riviers

  Pitt, Morton

  Pitt, William

  Pitt Rivers, Lord

  Poetical Address from Mrs Newton to Lady W——, A

  Poland

  Pompeii

  Pope, Alexander

  Porter, Colonel George

  Portman Street, London

  Portsmouth Docks

  Portugal

  Potemkin, Prince

  Prendergast, Sarah

  Price, Charles ‘Chace’

  Puglia

  Pylewell

  Quatre Nations, hôtel de, Paris

  Queensberry, Duke of

  Rambler (Rambler’s Magazine)

  Raphael

  Reign of Terror

  Reni, Guido

  Reveley, Willey

  Revett, Nicholas

  Reynolds, Joshua

  Rhodes

  Richardson, Samuel

  Richardson, Sarah

  Robert Pattison

  Robertson, Thomas

  Robespierre

  Robinson, Mary ‘Perdita’

  Rochfort v. Rochfort

  Rome

  Rosa, Salvator

  Rosetto (Rashid)

  Rowe, Nicholas: The Fair Penitent

  Rowlandson, Thomas; The Collectors; The Connyseurs

  Rowlls, Wi
lliam Peter Lee

  Royal Academy

  Royal Cheshire Militia

  Royal Hotel, Pall Mall: chosen as place for Lady Worsley and Bisset to stay; Lady Worsley and Bisset at; investigations conducted at; staff as witnesses at trial

  Royal Society

  Rushworth, Edward

  Russell, John

  Russia

  Sadler, Mr

  Sadler’s Wells

  Saint-Georges, Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de

  St James Coffee House

  St John, John

  St Leger, Anthony

  St Petersburg

  Sandwich, Earl of

  Scot, Dr

  Scott, Mr

  Sea Cottage

  Sebastiano del Piombo

  Sebastopol

  Selve, Monsieur de

  Selwyn, George

  ‘Separation from Bed and Board’

  Seville

  Sheffield, Lord

  Sheridan, Richard Brinsley; The Camp; The School for Scandal

  Shilling, The

  Shooters Hill

  Simond, Louis

  Simpson, Henrietta Anna Maria Charlotte Bridgeman

  Smith, Captain

  Smith, Sarah

  Society of Antiquaries

  Society of Artists

  Society of Dilettanti

  Society for Promoting Protestant Schools

  Somerset

  Somerset, Duke of

  Sotheby, Mary

  South Hampshire Militia

  Southampton

  Sozh River

  Spa

  Spain

  Spencer, Lord George

  Stanhope, Caroline, 2nd Countess of Harrington see Harrington, Caroline Stanhope, 2nd Countess of

  Stanhope, Charles, 3rd Earl of Harrington see Harrington, Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl of

  Stanhope (née Fleming), Jane Margaret, 3rd Countess of Harrington see Harrington, Jane Margaret Stanhope (née Fleming) 3rd Countess of

  Stanhope, Walter Spencer

  Stanhope, William, 2nd Earl of Harrington

  Stanislaw August Poniatowski, King of Poland

  Starr Inn, Lewes

  Stavordale, Lord

  Stilton

  Stockdale, Robert

  Stoke Park

  Stone, Lawrence

  Storer, Anthony

  Stratford Place, London

  Stratford Saye

  Stuart, James

  Stuart, Captain Simeon

  Sussex Downs

  Sutton, Lady George

  Swift, Jonathan

  Swift, William

  Switzerland

  Tarleton, Banastre

  Theatre Royal

  Thompson, Jerah

  Thrale, Hester Lynch

  Tilly, comte de

  Times, The

  Titian

  Tomb of Ajax, Rhoeteum

  Topham, Mr

  Topkapi Palace

  Torpedo, The

  Tory party

  Town and Country Magazine

  Townley, Charles

  Troiki

  Troy

  Trumbach, Randolph

  Tubb, Joseph

  Tubb’s lodging house, Lewes

  Tuileries Palace

  Tunbridge Wells

  Turkey

  Turtle, Benjamin

  Undercliff

  Valentia, Lord

  Van Dyck, Anthony

  Varennes

  Variety, or Which is the Man?

  Velázquez, Diego

  Venice

  Venus in the Cloister

  Vernon, Caroline

  Vernon, Henry

  Veronese

  Vesuvius

  Villa Negroni

  Villers, Mr

  Visconti, Ennio Quirino

  Voltaire

  Wales, George, Prince of (later George IV)

  Wallace, Attorney-General James

  Walpole, Horace

  Warde, St Andrew

  Washington, George

  Watkinson, Anna

  Webster, Elizabeth Vassall

  West, Benjamin

  Westminster Abbey

  Westminster Hall

  Westminster School

  Weston, Mr

  Weymouth

  Wheatley, George

  Whigs

  Whim!!!,The

  White Hart Inn, Godstone

  White Hart Inn, Lewes

  White’s

  Whore. A Poem Written by a Lady of Quality, The

  Wilkes, John

  Wilkes, Wetenhall: Letter of Genteel and Moral Advice to a Young Lady

  Williams, Elizabeth

  Williams, Eric

  Winchester

  Winchester College

  World

  Worsley, Lady Betty

  Worsley, Charlotte Dorothy (known as Charlotte Cochard), later Charlotte Hammond

  Worsley, Edward Meux

  Worsley, Henrietta

  Worsley, Sir James

  Worsley, James

  Worsley, Jane Seymour

  Worsley, Sir Richard, 1st Baronet

  Worlsey, Sir Richard, 7th Baronet: spends period abroad with his family; attitudes and ideas learnt during childhood; family background; death of his father; at Corpus Christi College; grand tour; first experience of a sexual nature; character as a young man; announces intention to marry; romantic interest in Jane Fleming; appearance; wealth; visit to Harewood; rejected as suitor by Jane Fleming; Seymour’s first encounters with; engagement to Seymour; marriage contract; purchase of jewels for Seymour; marries Seymour; first weeks of marriage; portrait on occasion of his marriage; renovation and extension of Appuldurcombe; sells Pylewell; interest in art and antiquities; becomes member of Society of Antiquaries and Society of Dilettanti; elected a Fellow of Royal Society; election to Parliament; political views and ambitions; appointments and offices; compiles A History of the Isle of Wight; commands South Hampshire Militia; busy lifestyle; birth of son; sexual inadequacy; beginning of marriage problems; unperturbed by wife’s behaviour; and elections; becomes acquainted with Bisset; offers captain’s commission to Bisset; at Coxheath; hires house in Maidstone; attitude to Bisset’s affair with his wife; accepts Bisset’s daughter as his own; visit to Maidstone baths; accommodation in Lewes; options available in event of an elopement; as trustee of his wife’s possessions; remains at home on evening of elopement; Bisset sends message to; discovers wife’s elopement; sets out for London; instructions to servants before departure; does not allow sending of clothes and jewels to his wife; bases himself at Hesse’s home in Paddington; receives messages from his wife; meets with Topham; introduced to Farrer; decides how to act against his wife and Bisset; Lady Worsley and Bisset anxiously await response of; Lady Worsley and Bisset learn whereabouts of; writs issued; Farrer explains situation to; instructions sent to servants; and involvement of Deighton in investigations; and gossip; remains in hiding; faces loss of political influence; receives letter from his wife; failure of negotiations; destroys his wife’s belongings at Appuldurcombe; continues to withhold his wife’s clothes and jewels; does not permit his wife access to her daughter; and death of Jane; legal team; criminal conversation trial (Worsley v. Bisset); attitudes to his wife’s affairs revealed by questioning of witnesses; shock at verdict, and disappearance; unable to face his parliamentary duties; public humiliation and ridicule; depicted in caricatures; voyeurism; and conceptions of connoiseurship; suspected of playing role in wife’s elopement; Lady Worsley seeks to embarrass; denies involvement in Variety; legal battle of Worsley v. Worsley continues; publication of An Epistle from Lady Worsley to Sir Richard Worsley; Epistle has impact on; arranges return of his wife’s clothing, but retains her jewels; pamplets published about; publishes The Answer of Sir Richard Worsley to the Epistle of Lady Worsley; name linked with courtesans; ruling given on his suit for separation; disputes details of the separation; travels abroad; efforts to acquire a collection of antiquities; interest in slave market; aggressiveness
towards his servants; purchases a slave; cruel treatment of slave; and Lady Worsley’s financial situation; returns to London; deeds for separation; displays his collection; Museum Worsleyanum; as British Minister-Resident in Venice; makes further acquisitions; and his son; leaves Venice; returns to England; retreats to Sea Cottage; relationship with Countess d’Amey; relationship with Sarah Smith; financial situation; seizure of ship carrying items from his collection, 256–7; reckless spending on collecting; late portrait of; death; legacy; collection sold; monument to; and claims of Charlotte Hammond

  Worsley, Robert Edwin

  Worsley (née Fleming), Lady Seymour Dorothy: birth; appearance; family background; as beneficiary of her father’s will; life at Harewood; character and interests; wealth; first encounters with Sir Richard Worsley; engagement; marriage contract; trousseau; jewellery; marries Sir Richard; first weeks of marriage; first portrait by Reynolds; and work in grounds at Appuldurcombe; birth of son; and Sir Richard’s sexual inadequacy; beginning of marriage problems; moves in fashionable circles; as inspiration for character in The School for Scandal; outrageous behaviour; Sir Richard unperturbed by antics of; becomes acquainted with Bisset; affair with Bisset; pregnant with Bisset’s child; at Coxheath; another portrait by Reynolds; living arrangements in Maidston; gives birth to Bisset’s daughter; visit to Maidstone baths; accomodation in Lewes; decision to elope with Bisset; possible outcomes of decision; preparations for elopement; elopement; writes instructions to Mary Sotheby; at Royal Hotel with Bisset; Connolly sent with message to maid of; discovery of elopement; Mary Sotheby’s concerns about; not permitted to have her clothes and jewels; sends messages to her husband; Sir Richard decides on how to take action against; financial value to her husband; anxious about her husband’s intentions; served with writ; investigations into; leaves Royal Hotel; gossip about; takes shelter in Southampton; letter to Sir Richard; failure of negotiations with Sir Richard; belongings at Appuldurcombe destroyed; husband continues to withhold clothes and jewels; not permitted access to her daughter; learns about death of her daughter; not present at trial of Bisset; and the charge against Bisset; and presentation of facts of plaintiff’s case; and evidence of witnesses about elopement; and Bearcroft’s address to the court; revelations in court about affairs and state of her marriage; relationship with Deerhurst; relationship with Wyndham; relationship with Rushworth; relationship with Cholmondeley; acquaintance with Peterborough; acquaintance with Bouchier Smith; relationship with Graham; suffers from venereal disease; speculations about other lovers of; sacrifice of her reputation; behaviour at Maidstone baths revealed; and judge’s address to the jury; exposed to public ridicule; displayed to Sir Richard’s friends during her marriage; public attention turns towards; lifestyle and friendships after the trial; seeks to embarrass Sir Richard; episode at Haymarket Theatre; as focus for insults and ridicule; target for satirists; focus for caricaturists; publication of An Epistle from Lady Worsley to Sir Richard Worsley; and disagreements about conditions of separation; registers complaint about husband’s failure to return her clothing; clothing returned to; more publications about; Sir Richard publishes his answer to the Epistle; ruling about separation; dare-devil equestrianism; pregnancy; Bisset leaves; lives in Newman Street; relationship with Byers; financial situation; receives visits from bailiffs; gives birth to Bisset’s child; leaves England; returns to London, and gives birth to a daughter; takes her daughter abroad; places her daughter with Cochard family; makes for Paris; relationship with Saint-Georges; returns to England; debts; deeds for separation; returns to Paris; lives in France; relationship with Dick England; gambling venture; receives occasional reports about her son; returns to England; illness; reconciled with her family; continuing financial difficulties; resides on Brompton estate; relationship with Porter; relationship with Hummell; and death of Sir Richard; marries Hummell, who takes Fleming as surname; resumes maiden name; regains possession of her fortune; nominates her second husband as trustee; and claims made on behalf of her daughter; remains socially unacceptable; returns to live in France with her second husband; death; second husband wishes to be buried alongside

 

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