Laura Bell
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Laura Bell (1829-1894) was a famous courtesan of Victorian England. She was most notorious for allegedly earning £250,000 for spending a single night with Nepalese Prince Jung Bahadoor, although other sources say that was the total he spent on gifts for her over their full relationship. In 1852 Bell married Captain Augustus Frederick Thistlewayte. She experienced a religious conversion and became a revivalist preacher on morality. She was born at Glenavy, Co. Antrim.
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- Courtesans by Katie Hickman, 2003, HarperCollins, [ISBN 0-9657930-8-7]
she was also a writer
