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Faro Ladies is a term for aristocratic female gamblers in the late eighteenth century. Gaming in public was not acceptable for aristocratic women as it was for aristocratic men in 18th century England, who played at social clubs such as the Tory -affiliated White's or the Whig -affiliated Brooks's.
Thus, women gambled in private houses at social gatherings that often provided other, more socially acceptable forms of entertainment , such as musical concerts or amateur theatricals. Sturt, Mrs. Concannon, and Lady Elizabeth Luttrell were common figures in the popular press throughout the s. Gambling's reputation as a dual personal and social vice, especially female gambling, was not new to the late 18th century.
However, in the s, the issue took on new importance as Britain, influenced by the chaos of the French Revolution , focused its attention with renewed vigor on any threatening domestic issue that could disrupt social order and political power. The middle class, who depended on credit for both livelihood and reputation, were particularly sour toward the vices in which the landed classes indulged, often without serious repercussions. In other elections, Mrs.
A few years later, in —97, increased monitoring of lower-class gambling brought about the arguably most famous legal admonishment of the Faro ladies. Henry Weston had committed forgery in order to obtain , pound from the Bank of England , and then lost the amount at a Faro bank. Lord Chief Justice Kenyon spoke out on May 7, Caricaturists subsequently published prints depicting Mrs. Conspicuously outed as a result of this incident, information against Lady Buckinghamshire, Lady Elizabeth Luttrell, Mrs.
Sturt, and Mrs. Concannon, and the usual proprietor of their table, Henry Martindale, was heard before Conant, the magistrate of Marlborough Street. Anti-gaming literature in late eighteenth-century Britain, in the form of satirical prints, newspapers , and serious moral treatises , emphasized the moral, social and political problems associated specifically with female gaming.