Eleanor Gwyn

Eleanor Gwyn, and out of this den of iniquity she came at night to sell oranges at the entrance to the theaters.

Famous Affinities of History — Volume 1 Lyndon Orr

Eleanor Gwyn, and out of this den of iniquity she came at night to sell oranges at the entrance to the theaters.

Famous Affinities of History — Complete Lyndon Orr

This one exception has been so greatly written of, both in fiction and in history, as to make it seem almost unnecessary to add another word; yet it may well be worth while to separate the fiction from the fact and to see how much of the legend of Eleanor Gwyn is true.

Famous Affinities of History — Complete Lyndon Orr

This one exception has been so greatly written of, both in fiction and in history, as to make it seem almost unnecessary to add another word; yet it may well be worth while to separate the fiction from the fact and to see how much of the legend of Eleanor Gwyn is true.

Famous Affinities of History — Volume 1 Lyndon Orr

How did they differ from their betters, unless it were that their price was not so high, and in what, save audacity, were they behind Eleanor Gwyn?

Simon Dale Anthony Hope 1898

Duchess of Orleans, who was soon to come to England, they said (on what business he did not know); next he spoke, although now with caution, of persons no less well known but of less high reputation, referring lightly to Lady Castlemaine and Eleanor Gwyn and others, while I listened, half-scandalised, half-pleased.

Simon Dale Anthony Hope 1898

Of dramatick immorality he did not want examples among his predecessors, or companions among his contemporaries; but, in the meanness and servility of hyperbolical adulation, I know not whether, since the days in which the Roman emperours were deified, he has been ever equalled, except by Afra Behn, in an address to Eleanor Gwyn.

Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746

* Eleanor Gwyn Ellen/Nell/Nelly—an orange girl turned actress at the King’s Theatre

Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

* Eleanor Gwyn Ellen/Nell/Nelly—an orange girl turned actress at the King’s Theatre

Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

Barbara Quinton, and that you love not, and will never love, and have never loved, no, nor cared the price of a straw for Eleanor Gwyn. "

Simon Dale Anthony Hope 1898