Emma-Lou Fitzgerald knew John Wilmot who was the Second Earl of Rochester and he wrote a great deal of his early poetry on her bare back

He instructed her not to bathe for fear of loss but she disobeyed him and on a chilly March day bathed in the River Stour

John Wilmot never forgave Emma-Lou for her indiscretion and wrote his future works on her twelve sisters who were known not to bathe