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A Bawd. A vertuous Bawd, a modest Bawd: As Shee Deserves, reproove, or else applaud. London, 1635.
A paradoxical encomium by John ‘The Water Poet’ Taylor. The ‘bawd’ was the manager of a brothel, or a more freelanced madam. In this period she was sterotypically an ex-whore who took a very ‘hands-on’ approach in luring new girls to the trade.
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Early modern European freakery, and sexual politics, lesbian history and pop culture. Or whatsoever else I fancy.
The title is taken from one of my favourite 17thC homoerotic poems, by Katherine Philips: 'To my Excellent Lucasia, on our Friendship'.
