10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GENTLEWOMANLINESS»
Discover the use of
gentlewomanliness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
gentlewomanliness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Victorian Unfinished Novels: The Imperfect Page
By way of Molly's initiation and by her access to the rituals of socialisation (
exemplified by her invitation to the Cumnor Towers), Gaskell is thus presenting
her readers with new paradigms of womanliness and gentlewomanliness for
Victorian ...
2
Waveform Politics; A War to End Democide
... right relationship with God in-the-world aren't always easy to evangelize.
Christians of course cannot force salvation anymore than Congress can pass
laws to compel gentleman and gentlewomanliness. On the left American
Christians may ...
Gary Clifford Gibson, 2007
3
The Handbook of Creative Writing
(32) The farm and its environs provide a challenge for protagonist Flora Poste, a
model of com- monsensical English gentlewomanliness, who goes to battle with
gothic nature itself in her efforts to reform the Starkadders. In Scoop (1938) ...
These are a fewofher expressions whenshe was sitting as ajudge, and with these
, and othersalready quoted,before us, is it notidle tospeak of justice, far less
ofmannerliness or gentlewomanliness in the case? Ungentlemanliness is bad ...
5
Straight Lick: The Cinema of Oscar Micheaux
... facial or bodily feature, gentlewomanliness, choice of marital partner, ethnic
and class exclusiveness, and cultural re¤nement—then passing might represent
the ultimate and most desirable accomplishment of those ideals. And if Micheaux
...
6
Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher of Edinburgh: With Selections ...
163 (she is about 60) she retains so much symmetry of feature, so much fine
expression of countenance, and so much grace of deportment, such a
gentlewomanliness of manner, with such an expression of goodness, as make
her absolutely ...
Eliza Fletcher, Mary Richardson, 2010
7
Letters from abroad to kindred at home
An interesting little episode to me in this bustling scene was Miss W., the very
essence of refinement and English gentlewomanliness, running hither and yon,
settling with porters, gardens, and mattres de poste, while her Yorkshire maid
was ...
Catharine Maria Sedgwick, 1841
She had a quantity of light chestnut hair, a good figure, a dazzling complexion,
and a certain languid grace which passed easily for gentlewomanliness. She
always dressed becomingly, and in what Fiddletown accepted as the latest
fashion.
9
Complete William Dean Howells Works
... keen light under her white hair, and whose dress showed none of the
incongruity which was offensive in the doorbell: it wasinthe perfection ofan
antiquated taste,which, however,came just short ofcharacterizing itwith
gentlewomanliness.
William Dean Howells, 2014
10
Margaret Anglin: A Stage Life
Again the gentlewomanliness of Miss Anglin was at or near the centre of most of
the critical appraisals. The Indianapolis News (16.1.15) reviewer, for instance,
remarks that a person of Miss Anglin's social and theatrical background is able (
as ...
