Emily Warren, also known as Emily Bertie Pott, was an 18th century courtesan. Stunningly beautiful, she left the London slums behind and (via the King’s Place ‘nunnery’) found herself enjoying the high life. Sir Joshua Reynolds depicted Emily as Thaïs. Horace Walpole said the portrait ‘was drawn from a woman of the town, Emily Bertie, and is too masculine’. You can read all about Emily’s life – and her tragic death – in our book, All Things Georgian: Tales from the Long Eighteenth-Century.