"A riotous and disorderly manner"

What numerology suggests about a 19th-century Cornish sex worker and her confidantes

Image from Olney H. Richmond’s 1919 The mystic test book; or, The magic of the cards. Giving the mystic meaning of these wonderful and ancient emblems in their relationship to the heavenly bodies, under all conditions; with rules and processes for reading or delineating the emblems.

I’ve always felt a magnetic pull toward the stories of historical women …