Georgia Hardstark
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4,112 appearances
38 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Feb 2025
Georgia Hardstark’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They buy themselves the finest clothes, the best food, all the drinks. They party together almost every single night and they have the time of their lives. And then Pig gets a surprise. Buck Lawless returns from America. And like any toxic ex, he reaches out and asks her to come visit him in Cork. She refuses at first, but she still has feelings for Buck.
He was, I can't say her first true love, but, like, she did love him. So Sally convinces her just to go see him, and she says she'll go along for protection. So the two women get to Cork, and Peg decides she and Sally should take advantage of Buck the way he took advantage of her. So they start partying in Cork on Buck's dime. Mm-hmm. And they do it for a while, like a couple weeks.
But Peg's taste for revenge softens, and soon she and Buck rekindle their relationship. And by the time Peg returns to Dublin, she is again pregnant with Buck's child. Oh, no. So now she's feeling like things are back on track. She's running a successful business. She has a boyfriend named Buck Lawless. But in keeping with the unfortunate cycles of Peg's life, trouble is right around the corner.
And this is awful. In November of 1779, a gang of seven college boys calling themselves the, quote, pinking dindies break into Peg's home and rape and beat her mercilessly. Oh my God. And her two-year-old daughter watches in horror as her mom is incapacitated by this monstrous gang of men. Peg survives the ordeal, but the baby she was pregnant with does not.
And soon after, her two-year-old daughter dies, too. Oh, my God. And in her memoirs, Peg attributes her toddler's death to shock. Oh. Horrifying. How much can one fucking person? Right? That's just awful. And yet, Peg does not crumble where she absolutely could have and maybe should have. Instead, she decides to sue these men. Yes. Which is like unheard of.
Like this single woman like out there alone and she basically sues them. The head of the gang tells her to drop the lawsuit or he'll kill her.
But she will not be intimidated. She presses on. She wins the case. So the perpetrators don't only land in jail, but once their sentences are served, they're banished from Dublin. Nice. Yeah. And so as Peg is kind of going through all that, Buck Lawless is making a plan to move to London. And he tells Peg he wants her to come with him. Peg loves the life she's built for herself in Dublin.
She doesn't want to leave it or her business. She certainly doesn't want to go to London. But Buck pushes her saying she needs a fresh start after all the things that she has suffered. So she finally gives in. She moves to London to be with the man she loves and to recover. And once she gets there, she finds out Buck has been sleeping with another woman. Buck.
So of course she's angry, but she's also resilient and she's determined to make the most of her time in London. She finds British people to be uptight and too concerned with pleasing local nobility. And this is kind of a running thing in Peg's life. She doesn't like these like upper class men. And probably for great reason.
I mean, those men, these rich men around her have failed her, have beaten her, have used her, whatever. So she kind of was like... It's so funny. So she's a rebel. She decides to have some fun. One afternoon, she sees the Prince of Wales in a tailor shop customizing a fancy waistcoat. So she goes in after him, orders the same waistcoat, and then gives it to her shoemaker. Nice.
So she's basically like, oh, you think you're the one that only... Now there's two of those dresses on the red carpet. Hell yeah. And then later on, she's riding in her carriage down the street and the prince, the same prince, comes riding along.
And I guess the thing they did was like everyone knowing it was the prince of Wales would clear off the street like a fire truck so he can have the street all to himself. Yeah. not Pig, she rides right along next to him and makes it clear to him that she considers him to be just another person like anybody else. Love it. But very quickly, Pig gets bored of London.
So she goes back to Dublin and she gets back into her brothel business with Sally. She's finally back in her element. She runs the business. She's partying with her friends. But then like really quickly and out of the blue, she marries a man named Barry Yelverton. And Barry Yelverton isn't just any guy. He's the son of a baron, and he is insanely rich.
So marrying him means that now people have to refer to Peg as, quote, the Right Honorable Mrs. Yelverton. Yeah, they do.
Right Honorable. Right Honorable. So this is kind of like... The perfect middle finger to anybody who has disrespected her for being a sex worker, for all the shit she's gone through. And clearly she's doing it for the money. Sadly, Barry actually has feelings for Peg. She just wants the status. She just kind of wants, she's basically like, don't hate the player, hate the game.
And it's all a game. So let's do this thing. Yeah. They actually go through with the wedding. But very soon after, Barry's father goes to Peg and says, I will pay you off to get out of here. Wow. And she's like, sounds good to me and gets paid off and leaves. Poor Barry. You know, Barry was one goofy motherfucker.
He's like, what are you doing?
He got played. He got worked. By his wife and father. Yeah. Yeah. So at this point, it's the 1790s. Peg figures it's time to retire. She has spent around 30 years in the courtesan business, both as a sex worker and as a brothel madam. She's amassed enough money to live comfortably for the rest of her life. Wow. Or so she thinks. Uh-oh.
A large portion of her retirement funds are IOUs left by the wealthy former clients themselves.
that she had credit so basically everything on credit they did it on credit and she assumed that they would pay because she knows they have money but when she goes and tries to collect on them they won't pay yeah and this is bad news for her because she's already bought a beautiful country house outside of dublin in the city of blackrock And she bought it on credit, obviously.
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