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Welcome to the Victorian courtesan project
A courtesan was originally a female courtier, which means a person who attends the court of a monarch or other powerful person.
In Renaissance usage, the Italian word "cortigiana", feminine of "cortigiano" (courtier) came to refer to "the ruler's mistress", and then to a well-educated and independent woman of free morals, eventually a trained artisan of dance and singing, especially one associated with wealthy, powerful, or upper-class men who provided luxuries and status in exchange for companionship.The word was borrowed by English from Italian through the French form "courtisane" during the 16th century, especially associated to the meaning of "court-mistress" and "prostitute
This project will contain profiles of famous and not so famous courtesans of Victorian England, feel free to add profiles and the story belonging to the profile