Teresia Constantia Phillips or Con Phillips was a British courtesan and bigamist who married at least five times and published a scandalous autobiography. The case is narrated in Lawrence Stone, 'Uncertain unions. Marriage in England 1660-1753'.
Life
Phillips was born in Kensington in 1700 or 1703. Her education was said to have been paid for by her godmother, Catherine Powlett, the Duchess of Bolton. She attended Mrs Filler's boarding-school in Westminster until her father remarried to a servant. It has been suggested that the choice of step-mother may have led to her godmother removing the source of funding. She was raped at an early age