I was approached by Pickering & Chatto to collect together all the wore biographies I could find. The term 'whore' was loosely used in the long eighteenth century to include any woman who did not conform to the role that male allotted them of a perfect maiden, mother or wife. More specifically, the term was aimed at all women who had sex outside of marriage be they long-term mistresses or street-walkers. Since many women were illiterate,  we are looking at biographies written by a certain set of male writers, often hacks scrapping a living writing smut  to titillate the reading public. They wrote about courtesans, mistresses, actresses and sometime just about well-known prostitutes, bawds and brothels. However, I did find some interesting autobiographies written by educated women who gave an (often eleaborated) insight into their lives with various titled men.