{"id":1480,"date":"2006-08-03T22:40:11","date_gmt":"2006-08-03T22:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2006-08-03T22:40:11","modified_gmt":"2006-08-03T22:40:11","slug":"women-of-shoreditch-in-the-16th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1480","title":{"rendered":"Women of Shoreditch in the 16th century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Then, as now, a marginal, area of London, where many writers lived or lodged.<\/p>\n<p>In Holywell Street, in the late summer of 1588, the great comic actor <a href = \"http:\/\/www.thebookofdays.com\/months\/sept\/3.htm\">Dick Tarleton<\/a> was dying, cared for by &#8220;one Em Ball&#8221;, a local woman &#8220;of verye bad reputacion&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><a href = \"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Greene\">Robert Greene<\/a> was living that year with a woman of the surname Ball, the sister of a thief who had died at Tyburn. She would bear his son, called Fortunatus, who died in 1593 and was buried at St Leonard&#8217;s Shoreditch, when his mother was living on the same street. The two Ball women might have been related, or they might have been the same woman. (p. 40)<\/p>\n<p>Other women in the pamphlets of Thomas Nashe include old Megge Curtis of Shoreditch for whom the pages of a pamphlet served &#8220;to stop mustard pots with&#8221;; and Mother Livers of Newington, a fortune-teller&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>(From <i>A Cup of News: The Life of Thomas Nashe<\/i>, Charles Nicholl, Routledge &#038; Kegan Paul, 1984)<\/p>\n<p>Anyone come across &#8220;Em&#8221; elsewhere?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then, as now, a marginal, area of London, where many writers lived or lodged. In Holywell Street, in the late summer of 1588, the great comic actor Dick Tarleton was dying, cared for by &#8220;one Em Ball&#8221;, a local woman &#8220;of verye bad reputacion&#8221;. Robert Greene was living that year with a woman of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-womens-history","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}