On 1st June 1741 Catherine Maria Fischer aka Kitty Fisher was born.
Letters of Horace Walpole. P. S. Saturday. — I forgot to tell you that Lord Hardwicke has written some verses to Lord Lyttelton, upon those the latter made on Lady Egremont [aged 35].1 If I had been told that he had put on a bag, and was gone off with Kitty Fisher [aged 19],2 I should not have been more astonished.
Note 1. The following are the lines alluded to, "Addition extempore to the verses on Lady Egremont:
"Fame heard with pleasure — straight replied.
First on my roll stands Wyndham's bride,
My trumpet oft I 've raised to sound Her modest praise the world around;
But notes were wanting — canst thou find A muse to sing her face, her mind?
Believe me, I can name hut one,
A friend of yours — 'tis Lyttelton."
Note 2. A celebrated courtesan of the day. — E.
Memoirs of Jacques Casanova. [1763] He told me I was quite right, and advised me to persevere in my plan. I made him dine with me, and then we went to see the well-known procuress, Mrs. Wells, and saw the celebrated courtezan, Kitty Fisher [aged 21], who was waiting for the Duke of ---- to take her to a ball. She was magnificently dressed, and it is no exaggeration to say that she had on diamonds worth five hundred thousand francs. Goudar told me that if I liked I might have her then and there for ten guineas. I did not care to do so, however, for, though charming, she could only speak English, and I liked to have all my senses, including that of hearing, gratified. When she had gone, Mrs. Wells told us that Kitty had eaten a bank-note for a thousand guineas, on a slice of bread and butter, that very day. The note was a present from Sir Akins, brother of the fair Mrs. Pitt. I do not know whether the bank thanked Kitty for the present she had made it.
1763. Nathaniel Hone the Elder [aged 44]. Portrait of Catherine Maria Fischer aka Kitty Fisher [aged 21].
Memoirs of Jacques Casanova. [1763] I felt that it was fortunate for me that I had Goudar, who introduced me to all the most famous courtezans in London, above all to the illustrious Kitty Fisher [aged 21], who was just beginning to be fashionable. He also introduced me to a girl of sixteen, a veritable prodigy of beauty, who served at the bar of a tavern at which we took a bottle of strong beer. She was an Irishwoman and a Catholic, and was named Sarah. I should have liked to get possession of her, but Goudar had views of his own on the subject, and carried her off in the course of the next year. He ended by marrying her, and she was the Sara Goudar who shone at Naples, Florence, Venice, and elsewhere. We shall hear of her in four or five years, still with her husband. Goudar had conceived the plan of making her take the place of Dubarry, mistress of Louis XV., but a lettre de cachet compelled him to try elsewhere. Ah! happy days of lettres de cachet, you have gone never to return!
Around 1763. Joshua Reynolds [aged 39]. "Kitty Fisher [aged 21] and parrot.
Around 1763. Nathaniel Hone the Elder [aged 44]. Portrait of Catherine Maria Fischer aka Kitty Fisher [aged 21].
On 4th December 1766 John Norris [aged 26] and Catherine Maria Fischer aka Kitty Fisher [aged 25] were married.
On 10th March 1767 Catherine Maria Fischer aka Kitty Fisher [aged 25] died.
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On 12th March 1771 [her former husband] John Norris [aged 31] and Catherine Lynch were married.
After 1806 [her former husband] John Norris [deceased] died.