page_title: Sally Lodge
section_title: Success as a madam
hierarchical_section_title: Sally Lodge / Success as a madam
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
context_page_description: Sarah "Sally" Lodge was an English prostitute and brothel-keeper in London. She had a high-class clientele and knew Alexander Pope and John Gay but lost everything in a confidence trick and ended her life as a barmaid in a public house in Wapping.
context_section_description: The venture was very successful due, in part, to the high class patrons it enjoyed from Court. Around 1720, an encomium, attributed to Alexander Pope, praised Lodge's establishment but lamented that age prevented the writer from enjoying it as he had in the past.
  My Little LODGE, tease me no more
  
  With promise of the finest Whore
  
    That cundum was e'er stuck in.
  
  Give younger men the beautious Dame;
  
  Alas! I'm passed the am'rous Flame
  
    and must give over Fucking.
caption: Portrait of Alexander Pope. Studio of Godfrey Kneller. Oil on canvas, c. 1716.[2]
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