Elizabeth Needham
English procuress and brothel-keeper · Died 1731
Elizabeth Needham, also known as Mother Needham, was an English procuress and brothel-keeper of 18th-century London, who has been identified as the bawd greeting Moll Hackabout in the first plate of William Hogarth's series of satirical etchings A Harlot's Progress.
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About this person
Although Needham was notorious in London at the time, little is recorded of her life, and no genuine portraits of her survive.
Status
Deceased
Dates
Died 1731