Elizabeth Armistead

Elizabeth Armistead was a courtesan and, later, the spouse of statesman and politician Charles James Fox. Her relationship with and marriage to Fox was one of the most famous and controversial of their age.

The woman known to the world as Elizabeth Armistead was born Elizabeth Bridget Cane on July 11, 1750. Later items in The Public Advertiser and Town and Country Magazine reported her place of birth as Greenwich, London and her parentage as variously a market porter and an herbvendor or a shoemaker turned Methodist lay preacher, but biographer I.M. Davis gives such accounts little credence. Samuel Rogers believed Mrs. Armistead had once been a waiting woman to actress Fanny Abington.

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