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John Rykener, also known as Eleanor, [note 1] was a 14th-century sex worker arrested in December 1394 for performing a sex act with John Britby, in London's Cheapside, while wearing female attire. Although historians tentatively link Rykener, who was male, to a prisoner of the same name, the only known facts of Rykener's life come from an ...
John Rykener, also known as Eleanor (fl. 1394), was a 14th-century transvestite sex worker arrested in December 1394 for performing a sex act with another man, John Britby, in London's Cheapside. Although historians tentatively link Rykener to a prisoner of the same name, the only known facts of his life come from interrogation made by the ...
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In 1394, John/Eleanor Rykener a prostitute working mainly in London (near Cheapside), but also active in Oxford, was arrested for cross-dressing and interrogated. In 1685, Arabella Hunt divorced her 'husband' Amy Poulter on the grounds that their marriage as two women is not recognised under the law, however initially complaining that Poulter ...
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Toggle John/Eleanor Rykener subsection. 1.1 Comments by Ceoil. 1.2 Comments by John B123. 1.3 Comments by Usernameunique. 1.4 Comment from Brianbouton. 1.5 Image review.
That Rykener was not - does not read well Tweaked. That Rykener was not—as far as is known—prosecuted may reflect the contemporary view that a prostitute was, by definition, not just a woman who took money for sex, but a sinful woman. Very confused sentence that could be removed as we have a detailed telling of the outcome.