In the eighteenth century Peg Plunkett blitzed her way through balls and masquerades, creating scandals and gossip wherever she went, leaving dukes and barristers stranded in her wake. She was the first madame ever to write her memoirs, thereby setting the template for the whore's memoir. In Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore, Julie Peakman brings her subject and the world through which she moved to glorious, bawdy life.