 Clarke attempted to publish her memoirs on the matter; they were suppressed, but she received a £10,000 payment and an annuity from the King.Harriette Wilson—described by Walter Scott as having "lived with half the gay world at hack and manger"—also published her memoirs.She too had profited from her liaisons with important society men, and had become mistress to the Earl of Craven at the age of 15; her memoirs went through over 30 editions in their year of publication.