Elizabeth Needham
Elizabeth Needham, also known as Mother Needham was an English procuress and brothel-keeper of 18th-century London. She has been identified as the bawd greeting Moll Hackabout in the first plate of William Hogarth’s satirical etchings, A Harlot’s Progress. Needham’s house was the most exclusive in London and her customers came from the highest strata of fashionable society. She ran afoul...
