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Words like these are not found in the dictionaries of British gentlewomen.

To read her, one must have an appetite for endless jumble sales and whist drives, and the interfering wisdom of dowagers and distressed gentlewomen.

In 215, when my book first appeared, the scholarly consensus was that "Dido and Aeneas" was written for Josias Priest's boarding school for young gentlewomen.

"Lilias said that she couldn&apost give the names of other women at the witches&apos gatherings as they were masked like gentlewomen," said Louise Yeoman, historian for the Time Travels show, in a statement.

Margery Sharp is sometimes compared to Barbara Pym and to Elizabeth Taylor, and there are certainly overlaps (the retreat for Anglican gentlewomen in "Summer Visits," her last novel, published in 1977, seems like it could be peopled with Barbara Pym characters), but Sharp has a touch all her own when it comes to taking on social class, sex and its consequences, and the changes that the 20th century brought to both those arenas, most especially for women.

In 1673 Makin circulated a pamphlet entitled "An Essay to Revive the Ancient Education of Gentlewomen", which argued the case for educating women.

Lists old institution and town has few elderly people in hotels who wear woolen underwear, flannel nightshirts, etc. Gentlewomen 80 or so know what sacque means.

On 15 March 1850 he was made Vice-President of Florence Nightingale's Establishment for Gentlewomen during Illness.Lynn McDonald, Florence Nightingale: The Nightingale School (Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 18 October 2011), p.61 (Retrieved 13 March 2016).

34 then part of the same group. Although sometimes described as the first female editor on Fleet Street, she was preceded by Delariviere Manley and Rachel Beer.Hadley Freeman "Ladies of the press", The Guardian, 16 June 2005 Almost all the staff at the Mirror were women, proprietor Alfred Harmsworth saw it as a paper "for gentlewomen by gentlewomen".Jeff Wright, "The myth in the Mirror", British Journalism Review, Vol. 14, No. 3, 2003, pages 59-66 The first issue sold a relatively healthy 276,000 copies, but was soon down to 25,000.

The hospital has its origins in the "Establishment for Gentlewomen During Temporary Illness" founded at Cavendish Square in March 1850. On opening, it had 11 beds, and employed nurses as and when required. Florence Nightingale became superintendent in August 1853, a week before it moved to Harley Street, and installed hot water on all floors, and a windlass to deliver hot foods quickly from the kitchen to beds. Under her governance, it was made non-sectarian and renamed the "Institute for Gentlewomen During Illness", taking in windows and daughters of professionals, the clergy and military personnel.

"Moll" derives from "Molly", used as a euphemism for "whore" or "prostitute". The Oxford English Dictionary lists the earliest usage in a 1604 quote by Thomas Middleton: "None of these common Molls neither, but discontented and unfortunate gentlewomen."“moll, n.” The Oxford English Dictionary.

By 1532, he had married Anne Grenville of Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire. His wife was one of the gentlewomen of Queen Catherine of Aragon. In 1545 and 1547, he was MP for Buckingham. He left all his possessions to his daughter, Margaret Foxley née Josselyn.

John Eyre married, by 1610, Dorothy Bulstrode (1592-1650), the daughter of Edward Bulstrode of Hedgerley, Buckinghamshire, and Cecill Croke. Dorothy and her sister Cecily Boulstred (1584-1609) were both gentlewomen in the bedchamber of Anne of Denmark, and associated with Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford. (Their grandmother Elizabeth Unton, Lady Croke had a connection to the Harington family.) The queen gave presents of clothing to her gentlewomen, and gave Dorothy, "Lady Eayres", a gown of ash-colour taffeta on 4 July 1610 and a black satin gown on 14 October 1610.Jemma Field, 'The Wardrobe Goods of Anna of Denmark', Costume, 51:1 (March, 2017), p.

In 1545 Roger Ascham (whose page was John Whitney, possibly a relation of Blanche Milborne) wrote to Champernon asking that she commend him to "my good Lady Troy and all that company of gentlewomen." However, the c.1546 household list for Lady Elizabeth does not mention Lady Herbert of Troy indicating that she retired from her position in late 1545 or early 1546; Elizabeth was then twelve years old. In 1549, Sir Robert Tyrwhitt wrote that "Ashley…was made her mistress (Lady Elizabeth’s) by the king her father… But four of her gentlewomen confess that Ashley first removed Lady Troy…and then her successor (Blanche) Parry…".

In most cases, it was little more than a list of synonyms. Its claimed purpose was "for the benefit and helpe of ladies, gentlewomen, or other unskillful persons". The words chosen were quite arbitrary and often obscure. Within a few decades, many other English dictionaries followed.

Stephen, Leslie. Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 36 pp. 397–400 MacMillan: London, 1893 At age six, she was given her own household, complete with "a staff of gentlewomen assigned to wait upon her", a schoolmaster, and a physician. She was given instruction in French, Latin, music, dancing, and embroidery.

The response to the Society was overwhelming. In the first couple of years over 500 women registered for classes with the Society. Jellicoe quickly found that the gentlewomen attending the courses thought working for wages was taboo and social suicide. This prompted her to found a new employment society Queen's Institute.

Dorothy and her older sister Cecily Bulstrode (1584-1609) were both gentlewomen in the bedchamber of Anne of Denmark, and associated with the influential courtier Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford. They had a family connection to Lady Bedford's Harington family through their aunt Cecily Bulstrode who married her grandfather Robert Keilway.

Queen Mary's household, at the time of her death, included a Privy Chamber establishment of seven Ladies and thirteen Gentlewomen, alongside a mere half a dozen Gentlemen and Grooms. Under Elizabeth I the number of males on the establishment was further reduced to just two, one Gentleman and one Groom.

Ladies and Gentlewomen is a Tamil language, Indian documentary by Malini Jeevarathnam and produced by Pa. Ranjith. It is about love, life, and suicide among lesbians. The documentary also features a "Lesbian Anthem" for which the music was composed by Justin Prabhakaran and lyrics were penned by Kutti Revati and Damayanthi.

Many letters written by William Paston's family and their circle have survived, making the Paston Letters an exceptionally valuable collection of historical documents; the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has called them "the richest source there is for every aspect of the lives of gentlemen and gentlewomen of the English middle ages".

The Daily Mirror was launched by Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, "for gentlewomen" in 1903.Trinity Mirror plc - Company Profile, Information, Business Description, History, Background Information on Trinity Mirror plc The company was first listed on the London Stock Exchange on 2 December 1953.London Stock Exchange. London Stock Exchange (2 December 1953).

Anna of Denmark gave presents of clothing to her gentlewomen, and gave Dorothy, "Lady Eayres", a gown of ash-colour taffeta on 4 July 1610 and a black satin gown on 14 October 1610.Jemma Field, 'The Wardrobe Goods of Anna of Denmark', Costume, 51:1 (March, 2017), p. 21, & supplement nos.

"Notwithstanding his puritanism in religion, several contemporary diarists record his ribald anecdotes and conversation, and John Manningham hints that he was not averse to enjoying himself in the company of gentlewomen when he was well into his seventies."Entry by David Ibbetson in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Accessed 26 May 2013.

The palace was largely renovated in the 16th century and was subsequently used to house the "widows" of the Medici family. Two covered passages connected the edifice to the Torre De Cantone and then to the church of San Nicola, where the gentlewomen could attend the mass without passing in the streets.

It is unlikely that the two were related. Finally the presence of the cotton industry in the town must have been an influence on its development. In about 1880, a Mrs Milner started an industrial association in Mountmellick to provide a livelihood 'for distressed Irish gentlewomen'. By 1890, it is known to have had 50 women employed in producing the embroidery.

They nursed him at Government House, not Sydney Hospital. In spite of the public acclaim this brought them, Lucy Osburn and her staff faced much resistance in their efforts to reform the infirmary. In addition to the appalling conditions, they met with hostility and opposition. The idea of gentlewomen working as hospital nurses was still novel, and to many people shocking.

No. 109 is a gooseberry fool made with gooseberries, water, sugar, egg yolks, cream, and nutmeg. Recipe 101, "To make Collops of Bacon in Sweet-meats" calls for Marchpane Paste, sugar, cinnamon, and ginger, sliced into escalopes as if it were bacon. The foods described are the sweet-meats which Woolley considered that her "Gentlewomen" readers would "have the Charge of". Recipes involving meat appear with nos.

Etheldreda later died around 1556, leaving behind her husband and daughter Hester. Harington entered the service of Princess Elizabeth. He was a cultivated man and a poet, who in his visits to Elizabeth at Hatfield turned his talents to the praises of her six gentlewomen, but soon singled out among them Isabella Markham, daughter of Sir John Markham of Gotham. He married her early in 1559.

Several English nobles secretly sent representatives into Scotland to try to gain favour and court appointments.Journal of Sir Roger Wilbraham (London, 1902), p. 55. The Countess of Bedford audaciously skipped the late queen's funeral and rode hard to the Scottish border, ahead of a party of gentlewomen appointed by the Privy Council, and got an audience in Scotland with the new king's wife Anne of Denmark.

The Duke of Lennox wrote to him in Paris, asking him to buy a dozen masks and a dozen gloves for gentlewomen, engaging the help of Madame de Gie and the Marquise de Vermont if possible.HMC 6th Report: W. G. C. Cumming (London, 1877), p. 682. In 1621 he returned to Sutherland, when he relieved the estates of the earl of a heavy burden of debt.

In 1602 Whitelocke married Elizabeth Bulstrode (1575-1631), a daughter of Edward Bulstrode of Hedgerley Bulstrode, Buckinghamshire. Two of her sisters, Dorothy and Cecily Bulstrode were gentlewomen in the bedchamber of Anne of Denmark Dorothy married Sir John Eyre in 1611 without her family's consent, Eyre was a "vicious reprobate" according to Whitelocke. Another sister Anne Bulstrode (d. 1611) married the lawyer John Searl in 1609.

The publication of his polemic provoked many retorts, the most formidable of which was Thomas Lodge's Defence of Playes (1580). The players themselves retaliated by reviving Gosson's own plays. Gosson replied to his various opponents in 1582 by his Playes Confuted in Five Actions, dedicated to Sir Francis Walsingham. Pleasant Quippes for Upstart New-fangled Gentlewomen (1595), a coarse satiric poem, is also ascribed to Gosson.

The Accounts presented themselves as a mirror, a looking glass for young Gentlemen and Gentlewomen, a seamark to all the readers so that they could avoid the fatal rocks of Sin, because even the best of men could find himself deep amidst death-threatening dangers. The dangers and temptations of sin were faced by all men, including readers, and suggested that salvation was available to all.

105–31 A co-operative guild providing employment for "distressed gentlewomen" accepted Hill for training in glass-painting when she was 13. When the work of the guild was expanded to provide work in toy-making for Ragged school children, she was invited, at the age of 14, to take charge of the workroom.Mann, Peter H., "Octavia Hill: An Appraisal", The Town Planning Review, Vol.

S. M. Pennell, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography In 1758 the eighth edition appeared, with extra recipes collected from "gentlewomen in the neighbourhood". By this time it is believed the rights belonged to Griffith Wright whose family went on reprinting the book until 1790. A sixteenth edition was printed in London in 1808. Customers of earlier editions were told they could buy their copy from the author in Pontefract.

With the interpretation thereof by plain English words, gathered for the benefit and help of ladies, gentlewomen, or any other unskillful persons. Whereby they may the more easily and better understand many hard English words, which they shall hear or read in scriptures, sermons, or elsewhere, and also be made able to use the same aptly themselves." A Table Alphabeticall was published in London. The 1604 edition was printed by "I.

Ruth Goetz was born Ruth Goodman on January 12, 1912 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Lily Cartun Goodman and Philip Goodman, a playwright and a theatrical producer. In her early years, Goetz attended Miss Marshall's Classes for Young Gentlewomen. Shortly after, Goetz studied scenic design with Norman Bel Geddes and harbored work as a costume designer. Goetz married Augustus Otto Goetz, a stockbroker at the time, on October 11, 1932.

The book consists almost entirely of numbered recipes, prefaced only by Woolley's letter "To all Ladies, Gentlewomen, and to all other of the Female Sex who do delight in, or be desirous of good Accomplishments." and a one-page address "Ladies, I do here present you" in verse. After the recipes are bills of fare (pages 353 to 369) for different times of the year, including "for extraordinary Feasts in the Summer", "for Winter Season", "for Lesser Feasts", "for Fish Days & Fasting Days in Ember week, or in Lent", "without feasting", "in Winter in Great Houses".Woolley, pages 353–369 Woolley then describes (pages 378 to 383) the duties of each "office", including the cook, the "Maid under such a Cook", the butler, the carver, and other servants, and then "the Gentlewomen who have the Charge of the Sweet-Meats, and such like Repasts". Part 1 of the book describes the making of many such "Sweet-Meats".

In February 1694 he successfully escaped from the Tower in disguise aided by a group of Jacobite sympathising "gentlewomen".Bruce, Thomas (1890) Memoirs of Thomas, Earl of Ailesbury, v.2, p.411 The London Gazette advertised a reward of £300 for his capture, describing him as a "a tall spare Man, aged near 50 or thereabouts, thin Visaged, having a Welt near the lower part of his Right Cheek by a Shot".

She particularly focused on unmarried women and impoverished gentlewomen and the disdain in which society held the idea of their employment. She also published several pamphlets and newspapers that argued in favour of educating and providing employment for women. She published A Handbook for Women's Work, later known as The Englishwoman's Yearbook, from 1875 to 1889. She also published The Woman's Gazette, later known as Work and Leisure, from 1875 until 1893.

She sought to convince single women to counter this idea with self-reliance and self-respect. In the first issue of The Women's Gazette Hubbard published a letter from Elizabeth Missing Sewell that advocated the creation of a club for impoverished gentlewomen. This resulted in the creation of an organization known as the Working Working Ladies' Guild in 1876. Hubbard frequently corresponded with the leadership of the guild often attended their committee meetings.

She also helped establish the Trained Midwives Registration Society with Zepherina Veitch, initially serving as the organising secretary. Hubbard sought to provide suitable housing opportunities for urban single women, who were often unable to afford to rent housing in London. During meetings held at the offices of The Woman's Gazette, the idea of promoting inexpensive housing for women was frequently discussed. Though there were boarding houses available, they were often deemed unsuitable for gentlewomen.

By 1673 Makin and Mark Lewis had established a school for gentlewomen in Tottenham High Cross, then four miles out of London. Elizabeth Drake, the mother of Elizabeth Montagu, and Sarah Scott are said to have been educated at the school. The school at which Makin was governess taught music, song and dance, but also writing in English, keeping accounts, Latin and French. If students wished they could also learn Greek, Hebrew, Italian and Spanish.

The drawing room opens from the right of the entry hall. It has a fine white marble fireplace surround and an internal door that leads to the dining room. The dining room has a large bay window and a black marble fireplace surround. The drawing and dining rooms contain pieces of furniture, sideboards, chairs and tables which probably date from the period of the conversion of Hanworth into a home for gentlewomen.

In 1669, Priest was arrested along with four others for dancing and making music without a license. In 1668, he was a dancing-master in Holborn, and in 1675 he moved to Leicester Fields to run a boarding school for gentlewomen. In 1680 he started a similar school at Gorge's House in Chelsea, London. Here Priest hosted operas, including John Blow's Venus and Adonis (1684) and Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (1689).

Blyth passed away at her home, 27 Mansion House Road, in Edinburgh on 12 February 1898. She was buried at Grange Cemetery three days later. Her will left a trust of three hundred pounds a year to the support of “such indigent and infirm gentlewomen”, the recipients to be decided upon by female members of her extensive family. A portion of her estate was to be donated to hospitals, missions, asylums and sick societies in Edinburgh.

The grant of constable and porter, keeper and warrener at Odiham was renewed in 1476 by Elizabeth Woodville, Edward's queen, to Nicholas as the queen's servant and Usher to her Chamber, and to William Clifford, the king's servant.Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1467–1477, p. 567. Thenceforth Nicholas was in the queen's service, and Margaret his wife was one of her Gentlewomen. Woodville patronage shaped their fortunes. In 1478, when he was M.P. for Southwark,Wedgwood, History of Parliament.

He was created a Knight of the Bath at Mary's coronation, and shortly thereafter was sworn to the Privy Council. His wife, Frances, became one of the Queen's gentlewomen. Further rewards followed in the form of grants of lands, including the manor of Costessey, one of the largest manors in Norfolk, where he rebuilt Costessey Hall. He played a decisive role in the suppression of Wyatt's rebellion in 1554, and 'was clearly one of the Queen's most trusted servants'.

Young ladies left Madame Grelaud's school with highly cultivated intellect; however, these schools were not established to enhance a young woman's competitive edge for the workforce. As Daniel Kilbride explained, “Young women studied the sciences because gentlewomen were expected to be conversant with contemporary intellectual currents, not because they might use what they learned in the household or workplace.”Kilbride 2006, 68. This elitist teaching style was a cause for contempt to the growing American middle class.

Vay's own works were successfully republished posthumously. In 1918, his Pestvármegyei históriák (Stories of Pestvár County), originally published in 1907 was republished and in 1924, his 10-volume Gróf Vay Sándor munkái (The Works of Count Sándor Vay) was re-released. In 1926 Singer and Wolfner Publishing re- bound Régi nemes urak, úrasszonyok: históriák, legendák, virtusos cselekedetek (Old Noble Gentlemen, Gentlewomen: Stories, Legends, Virtuous Deeds) published originally in 1908, for distribution by the Ministry of Religion and Public Education.

Stone supported several charitable causes in lasting ways. He educated his daughters at the Cleveland Academy, a school for girls founded in 1848, and in 1865 oversaw a capital fundraising campaign and the construction of the school's first building. He donated money in 1876 to construct and endow the Home for Aged Protestant Gentlewomen at 194 Kennard Road. The organization later moved out of this structure in 1931 to property donated by William G. Pollock at 975 East Blvd.

Herbert said Dorothy was of "an excellent wit and discourse", but claimed he knew her only slightly. However, he also described visiting her chamber at the palace at night and finding her examining the miniature by candlelight. Soon, following a summons to court from a "great lady", Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford, and Elizabeth, Lady Hoby, another of the queen's gentlewomen, all sent Herbert warning that Sir John Eyre planned to murder him in his bed.

She left for the Crimean War the following year. The foundation stone for a new purpose-built facility in Lisson Grove was laid by the Duchess of Albany in January 1909 and the new facility was officially opened by the Princess of Wales in March 1910. The hospital was renamed the "Florence Nightingale Hospital for Gentlewomen" after Florence Nightingale's death in August 1910. The hospital did not join the National Health Service in 1948 and instead was acquired by Bupa in 1978.

These areas, often courtyards known as the Kitchen of Base court, were not exclusively for the servants, and neither were they inconspicuous. At Hampton court the lesser courtyard forms part of the formal processional route under an ornate clock tower to the more grand areas of the palace. Servants in (before ?) the late 17th century had a greater social standing than their 18th century counterparts. They included gentlewomen and various poorer relations of the owners, and there were also far more of them.

Godolphin was founded by Elizabeth Godolphin using her own money and some from her husband (Hon. Charles Godolphin)'s estate. She created the school originally for the education of eight young orphaned gentlewomen. According to the terms of the Will, the beneficiaries were to be daughters of members of the Church of England, between eight and twelve years of age, born in Salisbury or some other Wiltshire town, and to have had "some portion left to them but not exceeding £400".

Ladies and GentleWomen is an attempt to break the silence in the area of comprehending the dynamics of lesbianism .Probably the first move in Tamil scenario , this Documentary aims to dialogue about the conspicuous silence around the body politics and Relationship which is misspelt as social Stigma. challenging the silence emerged from constant fight against Socially accepted identities. With absolutely no response to the suicidal cases, the Social Rejection of lesbianism leads to the documentary sternly projecting the question to the society .

The success of The Palace of Pleasure (1566–7) of William Painter prompted Pettie to write a similar book: A Petite Pallace of Pettie his Pleasure, contayning many pretie Hystories by him, set foorth in comely Colours, and most delightfully discoursed.’ It was licensed for the press to Richard Watkins on 6 August 1576, and was published soon afterwards, without date. Pettie, in his preface, says he mainly wrote for gentlewomen, and deprecated all comparison with the Palace of Pleasure. The author apologised for modernising classical tales.

Ethnicity, Power, and Politics in Canada (1981); Susan Jackel, A Flannel Shirt and Liberty: British Emigrant Gentlewomen in the Canadian West, 1880–1914 (1982) p. xx; Basil Stewart, "No English Need Apply": Or, Canada as a Field for the Emigrant (1909) In the British Empire, traditions of anti-Catholicism in Britain led to fears that Catholics were a threat to the national (British) values. In Canada, the Orange Order (of Irish Protestants) campaigned vigorously against the Catholics throughout the 19th century, often with violent confrontations.

"How Sir Launcelot slew the knight Sir Peris de Forest Savage that did distress ladies, damosels, and gentlewomen." From The Romance of King Arthur (1917). Abridged from Malory's Morte d'Arthur by Alfred W. Pollard. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham In this book, based on parts of the French Prose Lancelot (mostly its 'Agravain' section, along with the chapel perilous episode taken from Perlesvaus), Malory establishes the young Sir Lancelot as King Arthur's most revered knight through numerous episodic adventures, some of which presented in comedic manner.

It was a source of great gratification for him "to be able to say that the most cordial relations exist between the workers, the management and the board". Ferens died in his home, Holderness House, in East Hull on 9 May 1930. Hettie had predeceased him eight years earlier. In his will he bequeathed the house and its grounds, together with an endowment of £50,000, to be used as a rest home for poor gentlewomen and to be preserved as an open space for East Hull.

Schoolmaster Robert Cawdrey's A table alphabeticall, conteyning and teaching the true writing, and understanding of hard usuall English wordes, borrowed from the Hebrew, Greek, Latine, or French etc with the interpretation thereof by plaine English words, gathered for the benefit & helpe of ladies, gentlewomen, or any other unskilfull persons, whereby they may the more easilie and better understand many hard English wordes, which they shall heare or read in scriptures, sermons, or elsewhere, and also be made able to use the same aptly themselves (1604) is generally regarded as the first genuine dictionary in English. It contained roughly 2,500 words, each matched with a synonym or brief definition. According to the book's title page, A Table Alphabetical was intended for "Ladies, Gentlewomen, or any other unskillful persons" so that "they may the more easily and better understand many hard English words, which they shall hear or read in the Scriptures, Sermons, or else where, and also be made able to use them the same aptly themselves." The first six entries in Cawdrey's Table show the simplicity and directness of his style: #Abandon: cast away, or yeeld up, to leave or forsake.

Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1485–1492, p. 100. In the King's third year, at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth, Margaret Gainsford was present as one of the queen's Gentlewomen. Nicholas Gainsford was (with one Verney) one of the two Esquires of Honour who rode with the Lord Mayor (Sir William Horne) ahead of the queen's litter as she was borne from the Tower of London in procession through the City of London to Westminster.T. Hearne, Joannis Lelandi Antiquarii De Rebus Britannicis Collectanea, 2nd Edition (W & J Richardson, London 1770), IV, pp. 220, 233.

Her employees included the wives of soldiers pressed into service for Charles II and gentlewomen who had supported the Cavalier cause during the English Civil War and had since fallen on hard times. Her bawdy houses were favoured by King Charles and his court as well as powerful figures in government and city guilds. This position gave her a measure of immunity from prosecution and added to her profile as a caricature of iniquity and corruption. During the Bawdy House Riots of 1668, apprentices smashed up brothels across London, including those belonging to Cresswell.

He comments that there are several pudding recipes, both savoury and sweet, including haggis. He notes, too, that it gives instructions for the marzipan figures "so beloved on the Elizabethan banquetting table." The culinary historian Stephen Mennell calls the Jewell "more distinctively English" than the Boke of Kervynge and the Boke of Cokery from earlier in the century. It, like Gervase Markham's The English Huswife of 1615, was aimed at a more general audience, not only aristocrats but "housewives", which Mennell glosses as "gentlewomen concerned with the practical tasks of running households".

An undated letter from the Master of Gray requested some purchases in London including; a sword and a dagger with "black guards not long", a black panache for a woman, gold and silver thread of the greates sort, for gentlewomen to sew with, tapestry to hang two chambers, and a Venice hat for his wife. Gray asked for a silver basin and jug, the lightest (and cheapest) and gilded only on the borders. His correspondent was to bring home the jewels if they were ready and Gray would reimburse him for everything.HMC Salisbury Hatfield, vol.

A bed in his lodgings at the gatehouse of Whitehall Palace had belonged to "Lady Lennox", Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox or perhaps Elizabeth Stuart, Countess of Lennox, who had "worked" or embroidered the curtains.HMC 6th Report: W. G. C Cumming (London, 1877), p. 682. In 1620 he wrote to Sir Robert Gordon in Paris asking him to buy a dozen masks and a dozen gloves for gentlewomen, engaging the help of Madame de Gie and the Marquise de Vermont if possible.HMC 6th Report: W. G. C. Cumming (London, 1877), p. 682.

English-speaking Canadian writers became popular, especially Catharine Parr Traill and her sister Susanna Moodie, middle-class English settlers who published memoirs of their demanding lives as pioneers. Traill published The Backwoods of Canada (1836) and Canadian Crusoes (1852), and Moodie published Roughing it in the Bush (1852) and Life in the Clearings (1853). Their memoirs recount the harshness of life as women settlers, but were nonetheless popular.Marian Fowler, The Embroidered Tent: Five Gentlewomen in Early Canada: Elizabeth Simcoe, Catharine Parr Traill, Susanna Moodie, Anna Jameson, Lady Dufferin (House Of Anansi, 1982).

It was written by Golden Melody Award winner for Best Mandarin Male Singer JJ Lin and Tsai's manager Tom Wang, and the two have written the song "Mosaic" on Tsai's 2012 album Muse. With its gentle rhythm and guitar-based melody, the song depicted how modern people adopt the escapist attitude when facing the dilemma of life or love. The track "Gentlewomen" was written by Cheer Chan and produced by Tiger Chung. It was inspired by Simone de Beauvoir's 1949 book The Second Sex, which talks about the existentialism and feminism.

On November 6, 2015, Tsai attended the 2015 Simple Life Festival in Shanghai, China to perform "Gentlewomen", "The Third Person and I", "Lip Reading", "We're All Different, Yet the Same", and "Play". On November 10, 2015, Tsai performed "Medusa" and "I'm Not Yours" at the 2015 Tmall Double 11 Carnival Night in Beijing, China. On December 12, 2015, Tsai performed "Play" at the 2015 Mnet Asian Music Awards in Hong Kong, China. On December 31, 2015, Tsai attended the Jiangsu Television's 2016 New Year's Eve Concert and performed "I'm Not Yours" and "Play".

Scene 2: The Country Wench's lodging in London The Country Wench's father scolds his daughter (though he does not realize she is his daughter); he thought she was an upright gentlewoman, but she has turned out to be a "wicked bawd". The Country Wench responds that prostitution is just another trade, like any other, and all gentlewomen are sinners, one way or another. Scene 3: Outside Quomodo's shop Quomodo is pronounced dead (he has made arrangements to procure a falsified death certificate). Shortyard immediately begins to lay plans to cheat Quomodo's son out of his inheritance.

Sometime after her marriage, John Skelton, Poet Laureate of England commemorated Anne, her mother, and her two half-sisters, Elizabeth and Muriel in his poem Garlande of Laurrell, which is about an event that had occurred when he was a guest in the Howard residence of Sheriff Hutton Castle. Anne's mother, along with her three daughters and gentlewomen of her household, had placed a garland of laurel, worked in silks, gold, and pearls, upon Skelton's head as a sign of homage to the poet. The stanza which is addressed to Anne reads: "To my Lady Anne Dakers of the sowth".Skelton, Brownlow, p.

La Nouvelle Colonie is set on a fictitious Ancient Greek island inhabited with exiles, nobles from the Ancient Times such as Arthénice and Timagène, and Modern gentlemen and gentlewomen like Mr and Madam Sorbin. The population of the island urges Timagène and Mr Sorbin to write the laws of the colony. Arthénice, loved by Timagène, and Madam Sorbin, seize the opportunity to rebel against masculine tyranny and reclaim the right to pass laws too. In her speech to the women's assembly, Arthénice unveils Marivaux's arguments to support women's right to equality, stating that their inferiority is only due to their lack of education.

The character is probably based on the real-life Theresa Berkley who ran a brothel in Soho in the 1830s.Iwan Bloch, William H Forstern, "Sexual life in England, past and present", F. Aldor, 1938, pp.353,361 The character reappears in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. She is Headmistress of the Correctional Academy for Wayward Gentlewomen, where the League discover Hawley Griffin, the Invisible Man, impregnating her students (who believe he is the Holy Spirit), including Rebecca Randall (from Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm) and Pollyanna Whittier (from Pollyanna and Pollyanna Grows Up).

Elizabeth Tilney has been identified as the "Countess of Surrey" commemorated in John Skelton's The Garlande of Laurell, written by the poet laureate while he was a guest of the Howards in 1495 at Sheriff Hutton Castle. Three of Elizabeth's daughters, Anne, Elizabeth and Muriel are also addressed in the poem, which celebrates the occasion when Elizabeth, her daughters, and gentlewomen of her household placed a garland of laurel worked in silks, gold and pearls upon Skelton's head as a sign of homage to the poet.; . Elizabeth's likeness is depicted in a stained glass window at Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford, Suffolk.

Farnie (1993)The chapels in Manchester were at Oxford Road, Chorlton-on-Medlock, and Wellington Road, Fallowfield. His charities were numerous but unobtrusive. Among other benefactions he established and maintained orphanages, homes for aged gentlewomen, a home of rest for ministers of slender means, and he provided a town hall, public baths, library and a coffeehouse in the town of Stretford, where he lived. He also built an institute for the benefit of the villagers of Havenstreet on the Isle of Wight, where Rylands passed some of his later years from 1882, having built a house named Longford there after his mainland estate.

The Metham family of Metham had at North Cave a house which had been demolished. Existing at the time was a Methodist and a Quaker chapel. Population was 783, with occupations including seven farmers, two butchers, two corn millers, four shoemakers, five shopkeepers, two tailors, two wheelwrights, a blacksmith, two butchers, a paper maker, a bricklayer, two surveyors, one for highways the other for taxes, a schoolmaster, a gardener who was also the parish clerk, and the landlords of The White Horse and Black Swan public houses. Resident were three yeomen, a surgeon, a vicar, a gentleman and two gentlewomen.

Helena was also active in the promotion of needlework, and became the first president of the newly established School of Art Needlework in 1872; in 1876, it acquired the "royal" prefix, becoming the Royal School of Needlework. In Helena's words, the objective of the school was: "first, to revive a beautiful art which had been well-nigh lost; and secondly, through its revival, to provide employment for gentlewomen who were without means of a suitable livelihood."Chomet, p. 124 As with her other organisations, she was an active president, and worked to keep the school on an even level with other schools.

The grounds had been reduced to just over , and did not include the former tennis court. Mrs Wienholt was a member of the Brisbane branch of the Theosophical Society, established in New York in 1875 with the aims of universal brotherhood and the study of comparative religion, philosophy and science. At Hanworth in 1913, Mrs Wienholt established, in memory of her mother, a home for elderly, impoverished gentlewomen, and renamed the place The Hospice. Mrs Wienholt took a strong personal interest in the running of the home until handing over the place in mid-1927 to the Brisbane Theosophical Society.

" #"Glasgow Peggy" - "This version of the ballad was collated by Andy and retains the story while using, we think, the best verses available from other versions. It tells the story of a highly successful abduction of a young lady by Lord Donald MacDonald of Skye." #"Monymusk Lads" - "An Aberdeenshire song describing a young man's visit to his serving girl sweetheart's bedroom. He is discovered by the lady of the house who runs outraged to the Laird and berates a social system which allows servants to indulge in such pastimes, while gentlewomen must abstain (or at least use more discretion).

As he states on the title page of his first edition, it was to aid "[l]adies and Gentlewomen, young Schollers, Clarkes, Merchants, as also Strangers of any Nation, to the understanding of the more difficult Authors already printed in our Language". In terms of sources for his work, Cockeram turned to John Bullokar, who authored another dictionary, the English Expositor, in 1616. It is almost certain that Cockeram took many of his definitions from a Dutchman, known only as A. M., who translated Oswald Gaebelkhover's famous medical journal, Boock of Physicke, from Dutch into English.Riddell, pp.

In 1823 Fulford, known as "Fulford Gate", was a village in the parish of Fulford Ambo in the East Riding of Yorkshire and the Wapentake of Ouse and Derwent. Population at the time was 182, with occupations including two farmers, two blacksmiths, two wheelwrights, two shoemakers, a butcher, a tailor, a shopkeeper, a coal dealer, a corn miller, and the landlords of The Light Horseman, The Saddle, The Board, The Plough, and The Bay Horse public houses. Also within the village was a druggist, a manufacturing chemist, a schoolmaster, nine gentlemen, three gentlewomen, two bankers and seven yeomen. A school existed for 20 boys and girls.

What had especially kindled her fury was a tale that the Countess of Leicester was planning to follow her husband to the Netherlands "with such a train of ladies, and gentlewomen, and such rich coaches, litters, and side-saddles, as Her Majesty had none, and that there should be such a court of ladies, as should far pass Her Majesty's court here."Bruce 1844 p. 112 Thomas Dudley, who informed Leicester about these events, stressed that "this information" was "most false". At this same time the Earl was giving his wife authority to handle certain land issues during his absence, implying they had no plans to meet in Holland.

Herbert thought this the cause of Sir John Eyre's jealousy, and although Dorothy was of "an excellent wit and discourse", Herbert claimed he knew her only slightly. However, he also described visiting her chamber at the palace and finding her in bed examining the miniature by candlelight.Patricia Fumerton, 'Secret Arts: Elizabethan Miniatures and Sonnets', in Sephen Greenblatt, Representing the Renaissance (Berkeley, 1988), p. 124. Soon, following a summons to court from a "great lady", Herbert received warnings from Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, the Countess of Bedford, and Elizabeth, Lady Hoby another of the queen's gentlewomen, that Sir John Eyre planned to murder him in his bed.

The three principal mourners were Thomas Lodge, John Machell and Thomas Wanton, and the Lord Mayor and aldermen were all present in violet gowns, followed by the women mourners, ladies and gentlewomen and aldermen's wives, and many others. After the Dirige the Company of Grocers, the priests and clerks, the heralds, and the Wax-chandlers and others went to the house to drink. On the following day three masses were sung, two of prick-song and one of requiem, and a sermon was preached by Dr. Nicholas Harpsfield, Archdeacon of Canterbury. This was followed by the greatest funeral feast which Henry Machyn had ever witnessed.

Makin maintained correspondence with the Dutch scholar Anna Maria van Schurman and Schurman refers to Makin in a letter to Simonds d'Ewes which was published with the English translation of Schurman's treatise in support of women's education "The Learned Maid" in 1659. d'Ewes was a former pupil of Makin's father and is the source for the claim that she was the greatest scholar of any woman in England. Makin praises Schurman in her "An Essay to Revive the Ancient Education of Gentlewomen", published 1673. Makin and van Schurman both maintain that only women with enough time, wealth, and basic intelligence should receive a humanist education.

Schools of the Edmonton Hundred, GW Sturges Grove House School was one of several boarding schools in Tottenham with a nationwide reputation that were established from the late 17th century to the end of the 18th century. These included Bathsua Makin's ‘school for gentlewomen’ at Tottenham High Cross, and Bruce Castle School in Lordship Lane, established by the Hill family. One member of the Hill family was Sir Rowland Hill, who established the postal system by the introduction of the penny post.Tottenham: A History, Christine Protz Tottenham Polytechnic 1897–1936 Grove House School closed in 1878 and from 1892 the building was used for classes in art, science and technical subjects.

118–120 He informed his master that Lady Dudley had risen early and > would not that day suffer one of her own sort to tarry at home, and was so > earnest to have them gone to the fair, that with any of her own sort that > made reason of tarrying at home she was very angry, and came to Mrs. > Odingsells … who refused that day to go to the fair, and was very angry with > her also. Because [Mrs. Odingsells] said it was no day for gentlewomen to go > … Whereunto my lady answered and said that she might choose and go at her > pleasure, but all hers should go; and was very angry.

12, letter no 1636 > "My lord, very sorry at heart I am to advertise you that with the knowledge > and goodwill of the Queen's Grace I have spoken with the king our master and > also with my Lord Privy Seal (i.e. Thomas Cromwell) and the other gentlemen > of the council to have Mistress Katharine, your wife's daughter, to be of > the privy chamber with the queen; to the which I have had answer made me > that the ladies and gentlewomen of the privy chamber were appointed before > her grace's coming and that for this time patience must be had". On 17 February 1540 Lady Rutland wrote more positively to Lady Lisle:Byrne, vol.6, p.

Nef 1936:653, 660. Finer soaps were later produced in Europe from the 16th century, using vegetable oils (such as olive oil) as opposed to animal fats. Many of these soaps are still produced, both industrially and by small-scale artisans. Castile soap is a popular example of the vegetable-only soaps derived from the oldest "white soap" of Italy. In 1634 Charles I granted the newly formed Society of Soapmakers a monopoly in soap production who produced certificates from ‘foure Countesses, and five Viscountesses, and divers other Ladies and Gentlewomen of great credite and quality, besides common Laundresses and others’, testifying that ‘the New White Soap washeth whiter and sweeter than the Old Soap’.

After the title page are two epistles: “To all the constant Ladies & Gentlewomen of England that fear God,” and “To the gentle & courteous Reader.” Both are ascribed to Hadrian Dorrell. In the second epistle, dated “From my chamber in Oxford this first of October,” Dorrell claims that he discovered the poem among the papers of his “very good friend and chamber fellow M. Henry Willobie,” a young man, and “a scholar of very good hope,” who has left for foreign lands, leaving with Dorrell “the key of his study, and the use of all his books till his returne.” Dorrell says that he ventured to publish this poem without the author’s consent.

Charles Newell Cutcliffe (1747-1813), eldest son, a solicitor and banker at nearby Bideford, a Deputy Lieutenant for Devon and Captain of VolunteersVivian, p.267 at a time of great anxiety in England of a French Invasion following the French Revolution of 1789. He married Maragaret Mervyn (d.1792), a daughter and co-heiress of John Mervyn of Marwood Hill in the parish of Marwood. Two of his daughters were Ann Cutcliffe (1781-1859) and Harriet Cutcliffe (1786-1867), who both died unmarried, described in the census of 1851 as "resident gentlewomen" living at Hudscott, Chittlehampton as companions to Lucilla Rolle, the elderly and lunatic sister of John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle (d.

Shallow appears along with Falstaff's other cronies in the play Falstaff's Wedding (1766), a comedy by William Kenrick, which is set in the period between the end of Henry IV, Part 2 and the beginning of Henry V. A subplot involves Mistress Quickly and Doll Tearsheet disguising themselves as gentlewomen to find rich husbands, targeting Shallow and Slender. Quickly intends to marry Shallow, and Doll to marry Slender. The plan appears to succeed, but Shallow and Slender find out their true identities and switch places at the weddings with Ancient Pistol and Corporal Nym, so Quickly ends up married to Pistol and Doll is married to Nym. James White's book Falstaff's Letters purports to be letters written by Falstaff and his friends.

Given that many of Ravi Varma's paintings are actually used as icons of worship in conservative Hindu homes, this positioning represents a major stretch of the imagination, a major effort at fictionalization. In fact, Ravi Varma was himself of conservative outlook whose paintings indicate that he had a strong preference for decently clad, soft-featured, ladylike gentlewomen and a distaste for brazen hussies. Very few of his works venture into the realms of semi-nudity, and these few forays seem to have been calculated, highly reluctant efforts on his part to appeal to a progressivist western audience. Even at that time, art appreciation in the west was in the grip of a progressivist mafia who cherished radicalism and disdained traditional norms.

On 10 December 1868, she was granted a civil list pension of £100 a year. She was instrumental in founding the Hospital for Consumption at Brompton (now the Royal Brompton Hospital), the Governesses' Institute (presumably the School Mistresses and Governesses’ Benevolent Institution), the Home for Decayed Gentlewomen (see Elizabeth Finn Care formerly the Distressed Gentlefolks' Aid Association), and the Nightingale Fund (used to set up what is now the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery). Her benevolence was of the most practical nature; she worked for the temperance cause, for women's rights, and for the friendless and fallen. She was a friend to street musicians, and a thorough believer in spiritualism; but this belief did not prevent her from remaining a devout Christian.

Although 85% of the population in New York City at the time of its opening were either immigrants or children of immigrants, from its beginnings Wadleigh took pride in turning its students into “gentlewomen” who could assume their rightful place as contributors to American society. The nature of that contribution was subject to the temper of the times. In 1910, Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont (see Alva Belmont), a wealthy socialite, offered $100 in prizes to the girls of Wadleigh who could write the best essays on the subject of woman’s suffrage. The New York City Board of Education decided not to allow the contest to proceed with a view towards stopping the spread of woman suffrage propaganda in the public schools.“MRS.

Doll appears along with Falstaff's other cronies in the play Falstaff's Wedding (1766), a comedy by William Kenrick, which is set in the period between the end of Henry IV, Part 2 and the beginning of Henry V. Doll and Mistress Quickly, having bribed their way out of prison, appear in the first act explaining to Falstaff how they were arrested. They later plot to disguise themselves as gentlewomen to find rich husbands, targeting Robert Shallow and Abraham Slender. Quickly intends to marry Shallow, and Doll to marry Slender. The plan appears to succeed, but Shallow and Slender find out their true identities and switch places at the weddings with Ancient Pistol and Corporal Nym, so Doll ends up married to Nym.

The most famous confrontation took place at a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Oxford on Saturday 30 June 1860. While there was no formal debate organised on the issue, Professor John William Draper of New York University was to talk on Darwin and social progress at a routine "Botany and Zoology" meeting. The new museum hall was crowded with clergy, undergraduates, Oxford dons and gentlewomen anticipating that Samuel Wilberforce, the Bishop of Oxford, would speak to repeat the savage trouncing he had given in 1847 to the Vestiges published anonymously by Robert Chambers. Owen lodged with Wilberforce the night before, but Wilberforce would have been well prepared as he had just reviewed the Origin for the Tory Quarterly for a fee of £60.

As an armorial family whose original status derives from ancient landed property, the Ernle family belonged to the class known as the gentry. As gentlemen with a coat-of-arms, or armigers, the heads of the family were hereditary esquires, and the younger sons and their cadets all gentlemen, and their daughters all gentlewomen. The family were thus all of gentle birth, and were classed as members of what has been termed the minor or lesser nobility, corresponding to what the Germans term, Uradel, which the French call noblesse de race, or ancient nobility. Though they never achieved the ranks of the greater nobility which, in England, was confined to members of the peerage, at least one branch of the family did accede to the ranks of hereditary knighthood, created by King James I of England, and known as the baronetage.

Her daughter, Elizabeth Southwell, was also a maid of honour to Anna of Denmark. After 1608 her daughters Frances and Katherine were gentlewomen of the Privy Chamber. A "Mrs Southwell", who made an unsuccessful trip to meet the queen in Scotland in May 1603, mentioned in the letters of Captain John Skinner from Berwick-upon-Tweed, was Anne Southwell, an author, the wife of a Sir Thomas Southwell.HMC Salisbury Hatfield, vol. 15 (London, 1930), pp. 74-5, 90-1, 105-6, 388: Victoria Burke 'Anne, Lady Southwell', in George L. Justice, Nathan Tinker eds, Women's Writing and the Circulation of Ideas (Cambridge, 2002), pp. 97-8. In October 1604 she married Sir John Stewart, Master of Orkney, a son of Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney, at Chelsea.Edmund Lodge, Illustrations of British History, vol. 3 (London, 1838), p.

After the capture of Francis I by Charles V's troops during the battle of Pavia (1525), the princes Francis and Henry were retained as hostages in Spain in exchange for their father. Because the ransom wasn't paid in time, the two boys (eight and seven at the time) had to spend nearly four years isolated in a bleak castle, facing an uncertain future. The experience may account for the strong impression that Diane made on Henry, as the very embodiment of the ideal gentlewomen: as his mother was already dead, his grandmother's lady-in-waiting gave him the farewell kiss when he was sent to Spain. At the tournament held for the coronation of Francis's new wife, Eleanor of Austria, in 1531, while the Dauphin of France saluted the new Queen as expected, Henry addressed his salute to Diane.

Occupations included twenty-two farmers, seven shoemakers, five grocers, three of whom were also drapers, four blacksmiths, four tailors, four bricklayers, three joiners, two butchers, two glove makers, a brick & tile maker, a draper, a bacon factor (wholesale tradesman), a plumber & glazier, a bookseller, a saddler, a fellmonger, a corn miller, a gardener & seedsman, and the landlords of the Royal Oak, Plough, Star, and Black Bull public houses. Within the parish were two surgeons, a schoolmaster, four gentlemen and two gentlewomen, a Baptist minister, a curate and a vicar, a yeoman, an Esquire, two Royal Navy masters and a Royal Navy lieutenant. Two carriers operated between the village and Driffield, Beverley, Hull, and Bridlington once a week. Kilham was once an important market town in the Yorkshire Wolds, bigger and more important than Driffield at one time.

The desired patronage was not forthcoming, and Bentley became churchwarden of St Andrews Holborn with the support of John Aylmer, Bishop of London, in 1584.King (2005), p. 217. Described in its Introduction as "diuers verie godlie, learned and diuine treatises, of meditationes and praier, made by sundrie right famous Queenes, noble Ladies, vertuous Virgins, and godlie Gentlewomen of al ages", Bentley's compilation provides virtuous examples and precepts for women, as well as prayers and devotional works. The second "Lampe" or treatise collects important works of Protestant female piety, including Marguerite of Navarre's Miroir de l'âme pécheresse, a mystical narrative of the soul as a yearning woman translated by Queen Elizabeth as the Mirror of the Sinful Soul, along with prayers and devotional works by Anne Askew; Frances Neville, Lady Bergavenny; Queen Catherine Parr; Lady Jane Grey; and Queen Elizabeth herself, to whom the work was dedicated.

During the British East India Company's rule in India in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, it was fairly common for British officers and soldiers to take local wives and have Eurasian children, owing to a lack of British women in India. By the mid-19th century, there were around 40,000 British soldiers, but fewer than 2,000 British officials present in India. At first the Company, with some reluctance, endorsed a policy of local marriage for its soldiers. The board of directors wrote in 1688 to its Council at Fort St. George: "Induce by all meanes you can invent our souldiers (sic) to marry with Native women, because it will be impossible to get ordinary young women, as we have before directed, to pay their own passages although Gentlewomen sufficient do offer themselves." Until 1741, a special payment was made to each soldier who had his child baptised as a Protestant.

" For example, Watson writes that Rolle's "images used to describe the four experiences [of the perfectly converted] are derived from all four senses: sight (Sight into Heaven), touch (fervor), smell or taste (dulcor), sound (canor). He also describes the highly emotional, "spiritually sexual," and sensual language of Rolle's early poem Canticum Amoris. Vincent Gillespie's work also undermines the idea that there was a clear distinction between men and women when it came to religious practice, for, he writes, in the fifteenth century, "texts written for the particular circumstances of female religious (which had achieved, somewhat earlier, extension of their audience into ranks of the pious noble and gentlewomen) were being addressed to or compiled for laymen." Nicole R. Rice's book Lay Piety and Religious Discipline in Middle English Literature shows even more amply how books for spiritual guidance and rules for the spiritual life written for female religious could, sometimes with little revision, be popular with the laity, both male and female.

Mistress Quickly appears along with Falstaff's other cronies in the play Falstaff's Wedding (1766), a comedy by William Kenrick, which is set in the period between the end of Henry IV, Part 2 and the beginning of Henry V. Mistress Quickly and Doll Tearsheet, having bribed their way out of prison, appear in the first act explaining to Falstaff how they were arrested. They later plot to disguise themselves as gentlewomen to find rich husbands, targeting Robert Shallow and his young cousin Abraham Slender. Quickly intends to marry Shallow, and Doll to marry Slender. The plan appears to succeed, but Shallow and Slender find out their true identities and switch places at the weddings with Ancient Pistol and Corporal Nym, so she ends up married to Pistol, as in Henry V. James White's book Falstaff's Letters (1796) purports to be a collection of letters written by Falstaff and his associates, provided by a descendant of Mistress Quickly's sister.

Glasse also did not give instructions on how to run the household. In her preface, she writes: > I shall not take upon me to meddle in the physical Way farther than two > Receipts which will be of Use to the Publick in general: One is for the Bite > of a mad Dog; and the other, if a Man shoud be near where the Plague is, he > shall be in no Danger; which, if made Use of, would be found of very great > Service to those who go Abroad. Nor shall I take it upon me to direct a Lady > in the Oeconomy of her Family, for every Mistress does, or at least ought to > know what is most proper to be done there; therefore I shall not fill my > Book with a deal of Nonsense of that Kind, which I am very well assur'd none > will have Regard to. Glasse aimed The Art of Cookery at a city-dwelling readership and, unlike many predecessors, there was no reference to "country gentlewomen" or the tradition of the hospitality of the gentry.

" At the conclusion of the "Tale of Sir Tristram" (Caxton's VIII–XII): "Here endeth the second book of Sir Tristram de Lyones, which was drawn out of the French by Sir Thomas Malleorre, knight, as Jesu be his help." Finally, at the conclusion of the whole book: "The Most Piteous Tale of the Morte Arthure Sanz Gwerdon par le shyvalere Sir Thomas Malleorre, knight, Jesu aide ly pur votre bon mercy." However, all these are replaced by Caxton with a final colophon reading: "I pray you all gentlemen and gentlewomen that readeth this book of Arthur and his knights, from the beginning to the ending, pray for me while I am alive, that God send me good deliverance and when I am dead, I pray you all pray for my soul. For this book was ended the ninth year of the reign of King Edward the Fourth by Sir Thomas Maleore, knight, as Jesu help him for his great might, as he is the servant of Jesu both day and night.

Queen Elizabeth of York had numerous ladies-in-waiting, which was reported by the Spanish ambassador Rodrigo de Puebla as something unusual and astonishing: "the Queen has thirty- two ladies, very magnificent and in splendid style". Elizabeth of York reportedly had 36 ladies-in-waiting, eighteen of them noblewomen; in 1502, a more complete account summarized them as sixteen "gentlewomen", seven maids of honor and three "chamberers-women", who attended to her in the bedchamber. Aside from the women formally employed as ladies-in-waiting, the queen's female retinue in reality also consisted of the daughters and the ladies-in- waiting of her ladies-in-waiting, who also resided in the queen's household. The duties of ladies-in-waiting at the Tudor court were to act as companions in public and in private; to accompany her wherever she went; to entertain her with music, dance or singing; and to dress her, bathe her and help her use the lavatory, as a royal person, by the standards of the day, was not supposed to do anything by themselves, but was always to be waited upon in all daily tasks as a sign of their status.

In October 2014, Tsai announced the album would be available for pre-order on October 29 and officially released on November 15. Since October 27, 2014, Warner Music Taiwan posted one teaser in each following four days. On October 28, 2014, Tsai held a pre-order promotional event in Taipei, Taiwan, and she announced that she would release a reality show titled Play Project. On November 10, 2014, Tsai held a new songs sharing session at Neo Studio in Taipei, Taiwan, and she played the tracks "Gentlewomen", "Medusa", "Lip Reading", "Miss Trouble", "The Third Person and I", and "We're All Different, Yet the Same" on the event. On November 15, 2014, the album was officially released, and she held a press conference for the album on November 20 in Beijing, China. Tsai announced she would hold signing sessions on November 23, November 30, and December 13, 2014 in Taipei, Taichung, and Hong Kong respectively and two another on December 14 in Kaohsiung and Tainan. On November 27, 2014, Tsai broadcast her reality show Play Project, and it concluded on January 21, 2015 with a total of five episodes. The digital album peaked at number one in Brunei, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, and Taiwan.