I don’t know if this is apocryphal or not but I read that one of Gladstone’s contemporaries reportedly said that while Gladstone’s mission in reforming ‘fallen women’ was admirable it was interesting that the ladies he tried to reform were uniformly young and pretty.
Wasn’t he next to Churchill in political prowess? If you like whores you have to come up with a really good spin. He knew Queen Victoria would be impressed
As a Nepalese, I can conclude that laura bell has played a significant role in Nepalese history. Without her, it would be difficult for Nepal to regain some of it's territories lost during Sugauli treaty (treaty between nepal and east india company).
What a horrible statement. Women didn't want to be prostitutes lady, she didn't want to sleep with all these dirty, filthy old men. She did it to survive, just like all the other women in history. Would you sleep with a fat pig if you didn't have to???
@@randomvintagefilm273 Uh, that's what I meant. Everything back then was limited for women, she did what she felt she had to and survived. I look at it as a testament to her strength and ingenuity. She went out and grabbed life. That's what I admire, it was her choice who she slept with. Slow your roll.😂
I enjoyed this story about courtesan, Laura Bell, she was a very intriguing woman on many levels. I would be interested in reading her memoirs, if she had one, period! If she had been frugal with all the money, jewelry, etc. she acquired from her lovers over the years she would've been extremely wealthy. Inregards, to her husband he may have died under mysterious circumstances, especially since they had a loveless marriage. Great investigating, presentation, historical information, and photos, too.
My great grandmother was a confidante of Bell. The story goes shehad an abortion at an early age in Ireland which left her sterile, a cause of many of the arguments with her later husband who wanted a heir. It is deeply unfair that she is remembered in such unflattering terms,if she'd been a man she would have lauded as a "c##cksman" and seen as a object of admiration. A beautiful girl/ woman,really more sinned against than sinner,surely?
Laura Bell‘s story is inspiring, I admire historical stories of fallen women who in the end get their lives back together in the temporal and spiritual context.
Hello. What a wonderful surprise. I am able to listen to your stories & analysis completely without interruption. As it should be, you have such wonderful command of our English language.❤
I mean this in this highest compliment-your videos are so engaging and intriguing and take me back to graduate school history days. Thanks for the effort and research.
The architecture back in the day leaves me in awe! Such vast and elaborate estates, massive buildings, palaces and castles! What baffles me though is a) the cost of such structures must have been astronomical! Rooms made of pure gold! Diamonds and marble from far away places. B) Some of these estates took decades to build. People were living in castles as they're building around them. Don't get me started on the attention to such detail from the groundwork to the furniture! And these things were built to last!!! I wonder how many generations of owners were there before a structure like Versailles was completed? King Louis XIV "made his palace an expression of power and authority, knowing that glory was conveyed not only by war but also by buildings." - can't argue with that logic!
Excellent as usual! I enjoy your stories and narration very much! This has been a favorite channel of mine for a few years now! I think that times were very different then and I admire her . Not for the prostitution aspect, but for surviving and getting ahead with what she had to ,
Such a fascinating tale....it's heartbreaking though that even well connected women turned to prostitution. It makes one wonder how the middle class and poorer women fared.
This took place in the mid-nineteenth century, but by the end of the eighteenth century, a quarter of all women in London used prostitution to subsidise their income. Women simply didn't have many job opportunities or security. Most prostitutes did not become wealthy courtesans, and of those who did, even fewer managed to secure lifelong wealth from their status. The majority died of venereal diseases, or in poverty and debtors prisons, as their beauty and youth faded. Some turned to crime and were shipped to the colonies. We're lucky that we've come such a far way since then.
Not very well. They were either sold off if they were pretty or in slavery if they were not so attractive. This what men want us to come back too. I refuse. I will take my career over this life any day
@@camiba6773 Not all men, but yeah, there is a very scary, growing movement of losers and creeps who want us to go back to those days. Of course, at the same time that these men want to use prostitutes, they also criticise them for being whores who make money purely from their looks. Meanwhile, they blame women for absolutely everything wrong with their lives, refusing to ever consider the possibility that perhaps their lack of happiness and success might be down to their own mindset - not the mindset of women who are just minding their own business, and trying to avoid life’s pitfalls and struggles, just like they are.
I was so surprised to learn that Laura Bell wrote to Jung Bahadur encouraging him to support the British in the 1857 Indian Mutiny. Did a foreign lover influence the prime minister of Nepal's war decision? Sounds scandalous!
Those who don't like stories about courtesans and prostitutes are free to abstain from those videos. That being said, how is it the women get judged, while the men who frequent these ladies are allowed to keep their dignity intact no matter what they do?
Hello, I am a direct relative of Captain Robert Henry Bell, father to Laura Eliza Jane Seymour Bell. I have been working for many years with author, Anthony Drennan, to unlock some of the mystery surrounding Lauras birth. Your statements are based on erroneous information that has been passed around for years. Laura was actually born in Dublin in 1831, where her father was serving as the Captain of the Dublin Horse Police, out of the Dublin Street Barracks. Her mother was Rebecca Bowland Bell, second wife to Captain Bell. The family moved, upon his retirement to Glenavy, County Antrim. The remainder of your research is from standard fair and well-documented. I am working with Mr.Drennan, who will produce an addenda to his book on Laura clarifying her birth and early years. Her home, Bellbrook, completed in 1835 still exists on the Aghnadarragh Road quite close to Loch Neagh. Stephen Bell, Port Charlotte, Florida
I saw this picture and I remembered in 1969,I was in school and there was this girl her name was victruchknanvtryactriscutus,since you have jumped the name I won't tell you what really happened between me and her,life is sweet joor😋😁😁
She really didn't love nobody including herself she spread herself really thin. The only thing she loved was cold piece of paper in that was money 💸💰 dollar dollar bills y'all I mean she really cared nothing about herself nothing about no one but money what a waste of time to live your life. I spoke too soon at least she found God at the end maybe I'm still not doing watching it
I’m not “big” on courtesan & prostitution stories because they tend to feed into fantastical notions of exploitation being “wonderful!” But I am beginning to appreciate the value of Forgotten Lives’ coverage from a vantage point. There still are people tending to lionize all that was past as having been somehow “pure” & “orderly,” & “upstanding,” when in reality, it was mostly, merely human without being particularly humane a jot. But with some colorful moments & details worth mentioning & pondering, just the same. 💕♥️🥲🌸🌱
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I don’t know if this is apocryphal or not but I read that one of Gladstone’s contemporaries reportedly said that while Gladstone’s mission in reforming ‘fallen women’ was admirable it was interesting that the ladies he tried to reform were uniformly young and pretty.
Wasn’t he next to Churchill in political prowess? If you like whores you have to come up with a really good spin. He knew Queen Victoria would be impressed
As a Nepalese, I can conclude that laura bell has played a significant role in Nepalese history. Without her, it would be difficult for Nepal to regain some of it's territories lost during Sugauli treaty (treaty between nepal and east india company).
I just love 💕 his background music 🎶🎵 and the history he narrates.
Also all the nice pictures
Thanks 😊
You have to admire a woman who knows what she has and knows how to use it, especially in those times. Hats off to Laura Bell!
Three cheers for clever prostitutes
What a horrible statement. Women didn't want to be prostitutes lady, she didn't want to sleep with all these dirty, filthy old men. She did it to survive, just like all the other women in history. Would you sleep with a fat pig if you didn't have to???
@@randomvintagefilm273 Uh, that's what I meant. Everything back then was limited for women, she did what she felt she had to and survived. I look at it as a testament to her strength and ingenuity. She went out and grabbed life. That's what I admire, it was her choice who she slept with. Slow your roll.😂
@@pakde8002 If you have to do something, do it well.
You must be kidding. She was a horrible narcicist.
I enjoyed this story about courtesan, Laura Bell, she was a very intriguing woman on many levels. I would be interested in reading her memoirs, if she had one, period! If she had been frugal with all the money, jewelry, etc. she acquired from her lovers over the years she would've been extremely wealthy. Inregards, to her husband he may have died under mysterious circumstances, especially since they had a loveless marriage. Great investigating, presentation, historical information, and photos, too.
she was a hoe whats so interesting about that ?
"he kept a pistol at the side of his bed, to shoot the ceiling and summon servants" wait what?!
My great grandmother was a confidante of Bell. The story goes shehad an abortion at an early age in Ireland which left her sterile, a cause of many of the arguments with her later husband who wanted a heir.
It is deeply unfair that she is remembered in such unflattering terms,if she'd been a man she would have lauded as a "c##cksman" and seen as a object of admiration.
A beautiful girl/ woman,really more sinned against than sinner,surely?
LOVE LOVE LOVE IT! Another phenomenal video, I'm such a fan. Thank you for taking our suggestions, my friend. Be well!
What a fascinating woman and such an interesting life! I'll have to see if there's any books (non fiction and fiction) about her.
Wonderful account of a remarkable life! Thx for letting us know about her!
I don’t know how you find many of these people, but I’m so glad that you have. Your videos are ALWAYS well done and so fascinating. Many thanks!
Thank you so much!
I'm always excited for a new video from you! It's fun to learn about all these obscure yet fascinating people.
More to come!
Laura Bell‘s story is inspiring, I admire historical stories of fallen women who in the end get their lives back together in the temporal and spiritual context.
As always beautiful 👏👏👏👏also it’s nice to here of someone from Northern Ireland as I am from here ❤❤❤
Thank you! 😊
Such good stories you bring on! This is a very interesting one to me. Thank you for your amazing work FLives
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Thank you.
Hello. What a wonderful surprise.
I am able to listen to your stories & analysis completely without interruption.
As it should be, you have such wonderful command of our English language.❤
I mean this in this highest compliment-your videos are so engaging and intriguing and take me back to graduate school history days. Thanks for the effort and research.
Thanks very much!!
Another interesting history from the past . Thanks FL for your content!
The architecture back in the day leaves me in awe! Such vast and elaborate estates, massive buildings, palaces and castles! What baffles me though is a) the cost of such structures must have been astronomical! Rooms made of pure gold! Diamonds and marble from far away places. B) Some of these estates took decades to build. People were living in castles as they're building around them. Don't get me started on the attention to such detail from the groundwork to the furniture! And these things were built to last!!! I wonder how many generations of owners were there before a structure like Versailles was completed?
King Louis XIV "made his palace an expression of power and authority, knowing that glory was conveyed not only by war but also by buildings." - can't argue with that logic!
She Got The Goods‼️
Thank you for sharing this story, I look forward to the next one ❤
Thanks for listening!
What such a beautiful woman with an life change for the better. She looks a bit like a young Quuen Victoria.Thanks for the upload.
Excellent as usual! I enjoy your stories and narration very much! This has been a favorite channel of mine for a few years now! I think that times were very different then and I admire her . Not for the prostitution aspect, but for surviving and getting ahead with what she had to ,
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Thanks Forgotten Lives for another great case
Love your dedication in each video! Thanks for your effort and a great video!!!
So nice of you :)
Well researched. Enjoyed it.
What a beautiful story ❤️ Thank you for sharing 🥂💋
You are so welcome!
Thank you for posting. Love your channel.
Thanks for watching!
Such a fascinating tale....it's heartbreaking though that even well connected women turned to prostitution. It makes one wonder how the middle class and poorer women fared.
This took place in the mid-nineteenth century, but by the end of the eighteenth century, a quarter of all women in London used prostitution to subsidise their income. Women simply didn't have many job opportunities or security. Most prostitutes did not become wealthy courtesans, and of those who did, even fewer managed to secure lifelong wealth from their status. The majority died of venereal diseases, or in poverty and debtors prisons, as their beauty and youth faded. Some turned to crime and were shipped to the colonies.
We're lucky that we've come such a far way since then.
Not very well. They were either sold off if they were pretty or in slavery if they were not so attractive. This what men want us to come back too. I refuse. I will take my career over this life any day
@@camiba6773 Not all men, but yeah, there is a very scary, growing movement of losers and creeps who want us to go back to those days. Of course, at the same time that these men want to use prostitutes, they also criticise them for being whores who make money purely from their looks.
Meanwhile, they blame women for absolutely everything wrong with their lives, refusing to ever consider the possibility that perhaps their lack of happiness and success might be down to their own mindset - not the mindset of women who are just minding their own business, and trying to avoid life’s pitfalls and struggles, just like they are.
Thanks again for sharing this story. I look forward to the next one.
Glad you enjoyed it :)
Great content 👌
Thank you 🙌
Thanks for her story.👏🏼👏🏼
I love your channel and content! Thank you very much...
Thank you!!
Thank you for the video. It was very interesting.
Great as usual!
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Thanks for the support :)
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Excellent and enjoyable..TY
Glad you enjoyed it!!
I was so surprised to learn that Laura Bell wrote to Jung Bahadur encouraging him to support the British in the 1857 Indian Mutiny. Did a foreign lover influence the prime minister of Nepal's war decision? Sounds scandalous!
She's famous in nepal too
that reminds me of events closer to home and ongoing....
Those who don't like stories about courtesans and prostitutes are free to abstain from those videos. That being said, how is it the women get judged, while the men who frequent these ladies are allowed to keep their dignity intact no matter what they do?
Interesting connection to Oscar Wilde...
She was stunningly beautiful, for sure!
Who decides shooting a gun into the ceiling is preferable to say... ringing a bell lol
Thank you.
Laura Bell was what we call a train wreck. What a life!!
Very good
Interesting thank you
Glad you enjoyed it
Simping is a very old tradition.
The picture of her looks a lot like a friend of mine the picture of her is beautiful
Nepal attached her story ❤
Hello, I am a direct relative of Captain Robert Henry Bell, father to Laura Eliza Jane Seymour Bell. I have been working for many years with author, Anthony Drennan, to unlock some of the mystery surrounding Lauras birth. Your statements are based on erroneous information that has been passed around for years. Laura was actually born in Dublin in 1831, where her father was serving as the Captain of the Dublin Horse Police, out of the Dublin Street Barracks. Her mother was Rebecca Bowland Bell, second wife to Captain Bell. The family moved, upon his retirement to Glenavy, County Antrim. The remainder of your research is from standard fair and well-documented. I am working with Mr.Drennan, who will produce an addenda to his book on Laura clarifying her birth and early years. Her home, Bellbrook, completed in 1835 still exists on the Aghnadarragh Road quite close to Loch Neagh. Stephen Bell, Port Charlotte, Florida
What an interesting life, albeit not, perhaps, the happiest.
If anyone is interested there's a book about the life of a courtesan
I love your eyes 💙🦋
I saw this picture and I remembered in 1969,I was in school and there was this girl her name was victruchknanvtryactriscutus,since you have jumped the name I won't tell you what really happened between me and her,life is sweet joor😋😁😁
What a horrible opportunists , and the men were no better. We could imagine this in modern times concerning a certain president.
Nepalese prime minister name is Jung Bahadur not Young Bahadur
Man .. humans keep making the same mistakes - we will destroy wealth and dynasties over a pretty face 😍
Fluttered for a tinsel hour? What does that mean?
It is hard to imagine how the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ was just now available
yay i'm early!
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That’s not Young -> Jung
Laura was married to my 6th cousin 😂
So no kids
the original kim kardashian
She really didn't love nobody including herself she spread herself really thin. The only thing she loved was cold piece of paper in that was money 💸💰 dollar dollar bills y'all I mean she really cared nothing about herself nothing about no one but money what a waste of time to live your life. I spoke too soon at least she found God at the end maybe I'm still not doing watching it
You know you could take a break and do a show on women that weren't prossys or courtesans
Find another Chanel if you are happy
Why???? Why would Priscilla do this to her granddaughter? Lisa Marie left RILEY in charge.. why Priscilla? Honor Lisa MARIES wishes... IM WITH RILEY!
Wrong site!
Priscilla is a control freak who thinks she's still Elvis's wife. No way will she hand over being top dog, that's all she's got
I’m not “big” on courtesan & prostitution stories because they tend to feed into fantastical notions of exploitation being “wonderful!”
But I am beginning to appreciate the value of Forgotten Lives’ coverage from a vantage point. There still are people tending to lionize all that was past as having been somehow “pure” & “orderly,” & “upstanding,” when in reality, it was mostly, merely human without being particularly humane a jot. But with some colorful moments & details worth mentioning & pondering, just the same. 💕♥️🥲🌸🌱