of Lord Nelson Grace Elliott (1754?–1823), British courtesan Harriette Wilson (1786–1846), British courtesan Josefa Ordóñez (1728 – d. after 1792), Mexican courtesan-actress Kitty Fisher (died 1767), British courtesan and model La Belle Otero (1868–1965), Spanish courtesan La Païva (1819–1884), French demimonde-courtesan ('Grande Horizontale') of the Second Empire Liane de Pougy (1869–1950), French courtesan and Folies Bergère-dancer Lola Montez (1821–1861), Irish dancer, mistress of king Ludwig I of Bavaria Madame du Barry (1743–1793), French courtesan, last Maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XV of France Mah Laqa Bai (7 April 1768 – August 1824), Indian tawaif-courtesan Marie Duplessis (1824–1847), French courtesan, one of the best known from the era of Louis Philippe Marie-Louise O'Murphy (1737–1814), French courtesan, lover but not official royal mistress of Louis XV of France Mary Nesbitt (1742-1825), British courtesan and spy Mata Hari (1876–1917), courtesan and spy Rosalie Duthé (1748–1830), French courtesan, has been called "the first officially recorded dumb blonde". Sai Jinhua (1872–1936), Chinese courtesan Sophia Baddeley (1745–1786), British courtesan Støvlet-Cathrine (1745–1805), Danish courtesan, lover but not official royal mistress of King Christian VII of Denmark Zofia Potocka (1760–1822), Greek courtesan, mistress of Grigory Potemkin and wife of Szczęsny Potocki 20th century Marguerite Alibert (1890-1971), French courtesan, lover but not official royal mistress of Prince Edward VIII Famous courtesans in fiction Angellica Bianca in Aphra Behn's 1677 play The Rover. Bianca in William Shakespeare's Othello is considered a courtesan to Cassio. Bianca, who appears in Anne Rice's The Vampire Armand, is a courtesan. In John Cleland's Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Fanny goes from poor orphaned country girl to wealthy skilled courtesan eventually finding her one true love and retiring to marriage. Her history is told in the first person through several letters to friends detailing her life as a courtesan. In Sarah Dunant's In the Company of the Courtesan, Fiammetta Bianchini, a renowned courtesan of Rome, and her sharp-witted dwarf rise to success among the intrigue and secrets of Renaissance Venice. In the book A Great and Terrible Beauty, Pippa accuses Felicity of having a mother who is a courtesan and a consort, and who ran away to France not only to run a salon but to be with her lover, a Frenchman. Inara Serra is a 26th-century Alliance companion, a position inspired by courtesans, in Joss Whedon's TV series Firefly. Kamala, in Herman Hesse's Siddhartha. Komagata Yumi in the manga Rurouni Kenshin: