Jane Douglas

Jane Douglas
Detail from Hogarth's The March of the Guards to Finchley, 1745 showing Douglas in the window at the bottom right praying for the safe return of her "Babes of Grace". Douglas' girls line the other windows, and the cats on the roof indicate the house is a "cattery"; the signboard shows King Charles[1]
Bornc.1698
Edinburgh, Scotland
Died(1761-06-10)10 June 1761
Other namesMother Douglas
OccupationBrothel-keeper

Jane Douglas (c. 1698 – 10 June 1761), commonly known as Mother Douglas, was a brothel-keeper in mid-18th century London. Known at the time as "The Empress of the Bawds", her house in Covent Garden attracted customers from the higher echelons of society.[2]

  1. ^ Réveil & Duchesne 1833, p. 983.
  2. ^ White 2013, p. 366.