Tales of Old Soho

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It's remarkable that Soho should have acquired the reputation it has, bordering as it does on fashionable Mayfair, aristocratic St James's and genteel Bloomsbury. And yet, since 1641, when one Anna Clarke, a prostitute or 'lewed woman', was arraigned for 'thretening to burne the houses at so:ho', the area has been known as a centre of eccentricity, bohemianism and wayward, maverick characters.

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