Kate Meyrick leaving Holloway Prison

Kate Evelyn Ma Meyrick (1875 -1933), an Irish business woman and Queen of the London nightclub scene, pictured leaving Holloway Prison after one of her five stretches inside after being prosecuted for illegally selling intoxicants. She ran "43", a late-night jazz club at 43 Gerrard Street in Soho, was prosecuted several times for breaching licensing laws and went to prison for bribing policemen to ignore these breaches. Her book Secrets of the 43 was banned on its publication in 1933. Three of her daughters married peers of the realm

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