The Covent Garden Calendar
Sally Salisbury by Charles Walker(1723)
From Nightwalkers:
Prostitute Narratives from the Eighteenth Century, edited by Laura
J. Rosenthal. Broadview Press, 2008
Editor's Note: Sally, in a
fit of rage, stabbed one of her clients. He survived, and Sally was sentenced
to a year's imprisonment. She died in Newgate before her sentence was finished,
but after this memoir was published. See "Sally Salisbury" in The
Newgate Calendar https://www.exclassics.com/newgate/ng415.htm
Contents
Frontispiece:
Portrait of Sally Salisbury.
The
Epistle Dedicatory to Mrs Sally Salisbury
