Scandalous ENDEAVOUR

Facing certain disgrace, Lady Susan would be forced to take drastic measures

Gabrielle Mullarkey

London, 1740. ‘Can you believe it?’ thundered Lady Higton’s husband George, nearly spluttering his coffee over the breakfast table. ‘A morsel from one of those confounded gossip sheets reproduced in the pages of The Evening Post, no less! What is the world coming to, eh?’ Lady Susan gestured to the footman to remove his lordship’s plate of kippers from flinging range (he had already stained the wallpaper last week with a piece of well-aimed salted tongue). ‘What gossip sheet, dear?’ she asked mildly. He flapped his palm against the newspaper page. ‘One of those tittle-tattle rags penned by your own sex. Anonymous, of course, hiding behind an Italian handle, Un Pappagallo Femmina. That means “a female parrot”. Very subtle. She alludes to herself as one of those jibber-jabbering creatures that…

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