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Elizabeth Parker

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Birth: ca. 1745
Death: n/a

A prostitute, picked up by Boswell in St. James Park on March 25th, 1763. Boswell described her as "a young Shropshire girl, only seventeen, very well-looked, her name Elizabeth Parker. Poor being, she has a sad time of it".

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Elizabeth Parker is mentioned in:

  • London Journal 1762-1763

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From 1777 to 1783 James Boswell was a columnist for the London Magazine, writing a total of seventy essays under the pseudonym the Hypochondriack.

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