page_title: Jane Douglas
hierarchical_section_title: Jane Douglas
context_page_description: Jane Douglas, commonly known as Mother Douglas, was a brothel-keeper in mid-18th century London. Known at the time as "The Empress of the Bawds", her house in Covent Garden attracted customers from the higher echelons of society.
context_section_description: Jane Douglas (c. 1698 – 10 June 1761), commonly known as Mother Douglas, was a brothel-keeper in mid-18th century London. Known at the time as "The Empress of the Bawds", her house in Covent Garden attracted customers from the higher echelons of society.
caption: Detail from Hogarth's The March of the Guards to Finchley, 1745 showing Douglas in the window at the bottom right praying for the safe return of her "Babes of Grace". Douglas' girls line the other windows, and the cats on the roof indicate the house is a "cattery"; the signboard shows King Charles[1]
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