Robert Dighton - D10881
Rebecca Howse (née Wildgoose) ('Mother Goose of Oxford')
by and published by Robert Dighton
published July 1807
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Portraits in Profile: the Dighton Family
Robert Dighton
1751-1814
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'Mother Goose of Oxford', Rebecca Howse
(1737-1818), published
1807
Rebecca Wildgoose, an ex-procuress, became blind and married
a William Howse who then led her around Oxford selling flowers.
She was a well known character, affectionately called 'Flora'
by the students.
Earlier in the same year she was depicted in a very similar etching after a drawing by James Gillray, published by H. Humphrey.
