10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOYDENISHNESS»
Discover the use of
hoydenishness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
hoydenishness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A Woman's Thoughts about Women. By the Author of "John ...
Its opposite, either plainly or impliedly, has been preached to us all our lives. “An
independent young lady”——“a woman who can take care of herself ”——and
such-like phrases, have become tacitly suggestive of hoydenishness, coarseness
, ...
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, 1858
2
The Gentle Life: Essays in Aid of the Formation of Character
It is their fault if they step out of bounds. Vulgarity, hoydenishness, coarseness,
and the contempt which accompanies these qualities, are the effects of bad
manner and manners. It may pervade a whole nation, as it has done the
Americans.
James Hain Friswell, 1871
3
The Gentle Life. ... [By J. H. Friswell.] Fifth Edition
It is their fault if they step out of bounds. Vulgarity, hoydenishness, coarseness,
and the contempt which accompanies these qualities, are the effects of bad
manner and manners. It may pervade a whole nation, as it has done the
Americans.
What person of refinement of tho present day would, for instance, fail to discover
anything but hoydenishness in such an anniversary of the wedding of the exalted
pair as Mrs. Delany informs us they celebrated in October, 1772 ? ' The Duke ...
5
The Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature
"An independent young lady," " a woman who can take care of herself," and such-
like phrases, have became tacitly suggestive of hoydenishness, coarseness,
strong-mindedness, down to the lowest dress of bloomerism, cigarette-smoking, ...
6
The Spirit of Australia: The Crime Fiction of Arthur W. Upfield
... happiness of her uncle, Upfield cannot allow her to be without guile. She
should not be accused of what Upfield calls "hoydenishness," but she was the
kind of girl who regards all men as willful boys, and sometimes she took keen
delight ...
7
Diary Illustrative of the Times of George the Fourth: ...
Many years after, when Mrs. Clarke told me of the Princess's hoydenishness, I
recollected this opinion; and I remembered it with sorrow, convinced of its
justness, even to the day I followed her down the great stairs of the House of
Lords, when ...
Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury, 1838
Determined to prove her un-hoydenishness, she dressed in a forest-green taffeta
day gown, a short green velvet cape and a straw hat with a green ribbon. If she
had expected to see the Earl at the service, she was disappointed. The Countess
...
9
A woman's thoughts about women
"An independent young lady" — "a woman who can take care of herself" — and
such-like phrases, have become tacitly suggestive of hoydenishness, coarseness
, strong-mindedness, down to the lowest depth of bloomerism, cigarette-smoking
...
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, 1864
10
Bernard Berenson, the Making of a Legend
"I am all in a whirl," he exclaimed to Mary, "for she is the most incredible
combination of sheer childishness, hoydenishness," intermixed with "sincerity,
cynicism and sentiment." Mary, herself bemused with Geoffrey, sagely advised
him, "You ...
Ernest Samuels, Jayne Samuels, 1987
