Molly House

English Noun en molly house. en 2001 Western European Stages - Volume 13 46 The London party ends with the guests departed and the disillusioned Will casting a dispirited eye over the dregs of the hollow revelry, and the final scene returns to the Molly House, where Mrs. Tull, her fortune made, gives up her new name and her new business to retire to the country to apparent heterosexual happiness with her long-time admirer, the Princess. en 2007 Subcultures: Cultural Histories and Social Practice Ken Gelder 'Molly Houses' — places where homosexual men gather— may have been around as early as 1700: this is where the historian Rictor Norton in fact locates the origins of a gay subculture in England (Norton 1992). en 2009 w:Dan Cruikshank The Secret History of Georgian London 77 Random House [I]n a Bow Street Runners raid on a Molly House called the White Swan, twenty-seven men were arrested for sodomy and attempted sodomy. en 2013 Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd Jeanette Winterson Lady Cleland, the Doll's friendly rival, ran a Molly House in Gun Street.