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Name: Mrs Lilly LaVonte

Eye Colour: Brown, Hair Colour: Red

Head, Bust: Modest, Waist: Tiny

Origin: Actress Manners: 2 Charm: 3 Wits: 2 Spite: 3 Performance: 5 Prowess: 3

Good At: Tragic Acting, Singing, Spreading

Rumours Legend: 12 Reputation: 1 Wealth: 1 Infl uence: -1 Scandal: 1

Lilly LaVonte is a darling of the London stage. When her name tops the bill by God do you get bums on seats! Theatre is in her blood. Her mother Alice DuMarche was an actress: One of the few straight laced actresses who didn’t whore themselves in fact. She married Abraham Cohen a banker of Jewish stock but kept her maiden name as it was classier than Cohen (no offence darling!)She was determined that her beloved daughter Lilly should follow her as a serious actress and an example of virtue to all the sorry harlots who in Alice’s opinion degraded the reputation of the profession. She got off to a good start. She found comedy diffi cult to understand (her mother called her emotionally retarded and humourless during her artistic temper tantrums before blaming her stuffy father for it) but her angelic singing voice and talent for the tragic classics ensured a steady stream of honest work. Like many actresses she fell in love with an idealistic young director Henry LaVonte. Being such a straight laced girl she courted him respectfully and they soon married.She suspected something wrong on their wedding night.

He was nice enough but she got the distinct impression that he didn’t really want to be with her. Their love life was somewhat

She complained to him and he made her a most ungentlemanly offer. Seeing as she was his wife and property he would ‘loan’ her to his friends.

She protested that she wouldn’t break her marriage vows but he reminded her about the ‘love, honour and obey’ part. So grudgingly she accepted the paying lovers. Learning a bit more fi nesse than her less than interested husband ever had shown her.

Despite the coldness between them and her forced infi delity Lilly was determined to make her marriage work. She wanted the loaning to stop and for them to have a child together. She was about to confront him with her demand when she found out why he was so cold towards her.

He was arrested, tried and executed as a sodomite.

Lilly was outraged. She had been used as a cloak of respectability by the man she loved and now his secret was out her reputation was ruined forever. The theatre work was still coming in but it wasn’t paying enough to support a hempen widow with a husband’s debts to pay off and a now ailing mother. She appealed to the men who loaned her and one suggested that she take up being a Courtesan in order to pay off the debts. He directed her to 69 Frothington Road where she was made to feel right at home by her new Sisters.

Her mother is saddened by the necessities of her daughter’s misfortune but appreciates that she is doing it for her wellbeing as well as her own. Lilly is bitter against sodomy the “disgusting perversion” that forced her into this mess. She has started to attend Chapel and the minister has invited her to speak on the subject soon.

Relationships

Bella: “Hmpf! Women like this harlot are the

exact reason why mother warned me to be a decent respectable actress. She’s a complete airhead who would acquiesce to the basest of pervasions for the right price. How such a classless whore could rise so high I’ll never know. Still I’ll give her some credit. She is devoted to that little spastic daughter of hers. Even that is misguided though. How can a house of sin with a skeleton staff take care of a mite with her diffi cult needs? She has yet to explain this to me or to any of the others who have such misgivings.”

Jessica: “Her Ladyship has enough money

to outright buy our little home I heard. Yet she spends it all on herself. Most of it isn’t hers either. What I’d give to have been born into privilege, forgiven my indiscretions and bankrolled into the Demi Monde. My Lady I had to work for my living and my social standing. You have it handed to you on a plate and you make very poor use of it.”

Nora: “A beautiful, clever and ambitious girl

but she has no shame. I have told her time and again it simply will not do to walk about the House half dressed or worse completely naked. I warned her that some of our Sisters have something of a taste for the female form and she just laughed at me. You would think that this supposed straight as die girl was actively seeking to be sodomised! There is one part of her body she isn’t keen on anyone looking at for too long: Her back. She has the scars of a harsh fl ogging. ‘Tis a shame she’s the one of the least deserving of such a punishment of all of us. I really must tell her some day that it does not detract from her beauty one bit.”

Hattie: “Poor, poor sweet, confused little

Hattie. Seduced by damnable sodomite to the point where she believed she had found true love. In a slut of a nurse no less! She’s got a good head on her shoulders though. We should work together to fi nd her a good and understanding husband so that she can truly shine like the little plump star that she is. I do keep telling her that, that slut’s picture on her bracelet isn’t doing her any favours in this aim but bless her she’s so confused.”

Lucy: “That papist, tater munching, bog

trotting, sodomising little slut! Bella at least simply shows no preference for men or women and Hattie, well as I said she’s such a confused emotional mess at the moment but Mrs McBrien I haven’t the slightest sliver of sympathy for. Oh she’s had men, she was presumably even married once but it is all an act. Everyone on the Town knows she is the foremost Lady’s Lady in the city. Personally I wouldn’t even call her a Lady with her foul mouth and scandalous disregard for propriety. ”