1
Statistics come from Joseph Massie’s ‘Estimate of the social structure and income, 1759–1760’, in Roy Porter’s
English Society in the Eighteenth Century
(1990).
2
See Lawrence Stone,
Road to Divorce
, table 9.1
3
Lawrence Stone’s
Road to Divorce
(1992) is one of the most authoritative texts on the subject of eighteenth-century divorce and criminal conversation. He identifies several key components in setting these sums.
4
The verdict in this case means a favourable verdict for the person concerned.
5
In a rarer version of this same scene, Gillray has rearranged the figures of Bisset and Worsley; Worsley is standing upright with his friend sitting on his shoulders. Both versions were published on the 14th of March.
6
The author of the
Epistle
has never been identified but was most likely a Grub Street poet.
THE LADY IN RED. Copyright © 2008 by Hallie Rubenhold. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
First published in Great Britain as Lady Worsley’s Whim by Chatto & Windus, 2008.
First published in Great Britain as
Lady Worsley’s Whim
by Chatto & Windus,
a division of The Random House Group Limited
eISBN 9781466827905
First eBook Edition : July 2012
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rubenhold, Hallie.
[Lady Worsley’s whim]
The lady in red : an eighteenth-century tale of sex, scandal, and divorce / Hallie Rubenhold.—1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-35994-2
ISBN-10: 0-312-35994-2
1. Worsley, Seymour Dorothy, Lady. 2. Worsley, Seymour Dorothy, Lady—Marriage. 3. Worsley, Richard, Sir, 1751–1805—Marriage. 4. Worsley, Seymour Dorothy, Lady—Trials, litigation, etc. 5. Aristocracy (Social class)—England—Biography. 6. Adultery—England—History—18th century. 7. Divorce—England—History—18th century. 8. Worsley, Richard, Sir, 1751–1805—Trials, litigation, etc. 9. Bisset, Maurice George, 1757–1821—Trials, litigation, etc. 10. Trials (Adultery)—England—London. I. Title.
DA483.W67R83 2009
942.2’80730922—dc22
[B]
2009003785
First U.S. Edition: July 2009