Word: swansdown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...GIRL WITH THE SWANSDOWN SEAT (263 pp.)-Cyril Pearl-Bobbs-Merrill...
...whore, sir, much sought after by fast young swells." The public knew her as "Skittles," and her rich patrons called her "Skitsie." As "the self-crowned queen of mid-Victorian harlotry," she maintained herself in London in such magnificence that the toilet seat in her bathroom was upholstered in swansdown. She was one of the most accomplished horsewomen of the time, was among the first to become proficient in the sport of roller skating (newly imported from America), had the Prince of Wales at her Sunday afternoon parties. Lord Kitchener, with his splendid mustachios, occasionally walked alongside when...