“Died last week, at her lodgings, near the Seven Dials, the much-talked of Mrs. Mapps, the bone-setter, so miserably poor, that the parish was obliged to bury her.” London Daily Post, 22nd December 1737. Mrs Sarah Mapp had a brief flirtation with fame in the mid 1730s when her pioneering work in what might now be… Continue reading Fame, what you need you have to borrow
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