Karen Proudler

Lady Ivie: Queen of Wapping Karen Proudler

Lady Ivie was one of the most notorious women of the 17th century. An accidental heiress who rose to become the Queen of Wapping with designs on neighbouring Shadwell too. She was called a forger, serial litigant, seducer, poisoner and even murderer. So many names for a woman who was an enigma. But was she a villain, or simply a woman victimised by those men she challenged? Researched entirely from unpublished material, this book tells her story for the first time and answers the question of who Lady Ivie really was.