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Sophie Lyons was a “thief from the cradle”, as one Chief of Police said; at the early age of six years she had already been trained by her stepmother to be a pickpocket and a shoplifter. A beautiful child with engaging manners, she was sent out every day into the stores and among the crowds of shoppers, and was soundly whipped if she came out of a shop with less than three pocketbooks. “I did not know it was wrong to steal; nobody ever taught me that,” Sophie Lyons writes.

Whilst they’re not the most domestic of women, if there’s one house Clara & Sophie can manage, it’s the House of Gossip - a weekly dose of pop culture nourishment.Resident Creative Directors Clara & Sophie are in the gossip closet serving up the latest juicy topics worthy of their carefully curated analysis. Every Tuesday, they sashay onto the factory floor of entertainment and cover breaking scandals, give general celebrity commentary and everything in between.Welcome to House of Gossip, their A/W 23 collection is out now! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/...