User:JanetteDoe/Fanny Lear

Fanny Lear (1848, Philadelphia - ), born Harriet Clarissima Ely, later Mrs Blackford, was an American courtesan famous for affairs with, among others, Grand Duke Nicholas Constantinovich of Russia.

Journal of Presbyterian History, vol 52, 1974, p 152.

Le roman d'une Américaine en Russie: accompagné de lettres originales

By Harriet Ely Blackford

Philadelphia, Paris, St Petersburg.