Hundred Guineas Club
| Hundred Guineas Club | |
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| Location | Portland Place, London, United Kingdom |
Hundred Guineas Club in Portland Place, London was a high-class 19th century molly house, so called because of its expensive membership fee.[1] At the club, members and their guests customarily assumed feminine names, and some of them cross-dressed.[2] A typical evening involved dancing, conversations and refreshments, until at 2 am the lights were turned off and the guests were free to approach any of the sex workers—the so-called "Mary-Anns".[3] According to his biographer Michael Harrison, Prince Albert Victor frequented the club under the name Victoria.[3] The club, referred to as "Mr. Inslip's Club", appears in the scandalous 1881 non-fiction novel The Sins of the Cities of the Plain.
See also
References
- ↑ Robinson, Emily (2017). Bodies and Money: Mapping Homosexual Interactions in Late-Victorian London (Thesis). English Honors Theses. Retrieved 13 April 2026.
- ↑ Aronson, Theo (1994). Prince Eddy and the Homosexual Underworld. John Murray, Boston. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-83901-260-0. Retrieved 13 April 2026.
- 1 2 Simpson, Colin; Chester, Lewis; Leitch, David (1976). The Cleveland Street Affair. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. pp. 56–58. ISBN 978-0-297-77113-5. Retrieved 13 April 2026.
External links
The full text of The Sins of the Cities of the Plain at Wikisource