Shappi Khorsandi on Emma, Lady Hamilton
Great Lives
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Emma Hamilton - I'm a Single Mother of a Daughter
Back then, something like one in six women in london worked as sex workers. It was a very common way to supplement your income or have an income. Now i'm also a single mother of a daughter. The father of emma's first child, an aristocrat, abandoned her. He washed his hands of the situation, palmed her off to somebody else. But in my world, i am allowed to keep my child. I have the financial resources toKeep my child. Emma didn't. So it matters to me to tell her story as it actually was.
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