10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DUENNASHIP»
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duennaship in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
duennaship and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Martha Brown, the Heiress
... for you have often said that you do not wish to marry at present.' ' At present, or
in the future/ replied Martha. ' You need not imagine, my dear old Jen, that I
wished to imply that the end of your duennaship is at hand. But without being
afraid ...
Margaret Agnes Paull, 1861
2
The Foreign Quarterly Review
tency which distinguishes men, he was exceedineg jealous of his Wife, whom he
placed under the duennaship of his mother, whose undertaking was, never to let
her out of sight. The Due de Saint- Simon observes, that these precautions are ...
3
The English Novelist; a Collection of Tales by the Most ...
Having failed in her project to become the wife of Junquera, she still chose to
write herself down his loving kinswoman and ally; and soon began to affect a
matronly tenderness towards the bride, and even such airs of duennaship as she
might ...
... rolled himself in his cloak, and lay brooding. - Meanwhile Coronado had
amused Clara below until he felt seasick and had to take to his berth. Escaping
thus from his duennaship, she wanted to see a storm, as she called the half-gale
which ...
John William De Forest, 2010
... his conscience soon pricking him for leaving his ass alone, he approached a
reverend duenna, who among others came out to receive the duchess, and said
to her in a whisper, " Mistress Gonzalez, or, what is your duennaship's name?
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1809
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Attractions of Language, Or A Popular View of Natural ...
train of courtiers are always in attendance; a system of duennaship, relative to the
young queens is maintained, which would do honor to the most jealous court of
Europe. The animosity which exists among their rival monarchs is truly human, ...
Benjamin Franklin Taylor, 1842
7
The Select Journal of Foreign Periodical Literature
With all his own licentiousness and with that strange inconsistency which
distinguishes men, he was exceedingly jealous of his wife, whom he placed
under the duennaship of his mother, whose undertaking was, never to let her out
of sight.
Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom, 1833
8
The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote ...
... his conscience soon pricking him sor leaving his ass alone, he approached a
reverend duenna, who, among others, came out to receive the duchess, and said
to her in a whisper: l" Mistress Gonzalez, or, what is your duennaship's name?
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1788
The young lady was feeling a little nervous at having so entirely broken away
from her sister's duennaship, but took comfort in the fact that two of the party were
English, people who took such matters very lightly of course, and that after all it ...
10
Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle
Chapter XXIX. THE TERRORS OF JUDGMENT. Mr. Lascelles and Mrs. Edith
Everett stood by the parting of the ways, she to return to the tedium of her
duennaship at the Abbey, he to the discomfort of his bereaved Vicarage ; both a
little ...
