Unwittingly stumbling across a mouldering pile of ancient newspapers in the loft, my eyes began scanning the news of the day in an edition of Daily Trifles from 1898, which featured the headline, Wooed Wench, which immediately caught my attention.

Who was the Victorian wench of the story and who had wooed her?

Indeed, exactly how wooed was she?

It transpired that something of a controversy had blown-up around the indiscreet liaisons between a highly regarded member of the local nobility, Lord Muffingham, and an infamous backstreet harlot celebrated in the village as Fishy Fanny.

His Lordship was undoubtedly not the first, nor the last, gentleman in his autumnal years to be bewitched by a saucy young floozy with a reputation for possessing loose morals and even looser knicker elastic and i can sympathise with the doddery old codger's trembling delight in the attentions of this mysterious young madam.

I shall look further into the matter without delay and do my very utmost to learn more of young Fanny, forgotten heroine of the rural locality and wayward wench of a bygone era.

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