2 QUOTES WITH «MAIDEN AUNT»
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maiden aunt.
Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.
I have always loved a hard-faced girl. I get that Alison Goldfrapp isn't easy, and I like her belligerence. She's deeply sexy and controlled, like a Strict Machine, and it seems to wind the b'jesus out of the women I know. On the outside, I watch and smile and will her on like a twisted silent maiden aunt in the dark corner.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MAIDEN AUNT»
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maiden aunt in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
maiden aunt and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Mother and the
Maiden Aunt: Letters of Eva and Alice ...
Eva’s letters provide a vivid insight into her busy life. She was frequently so busy that letters were written over several days, and usually included the time of day when each piece was written.
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Romantic Austen: Sexual Politics and the Literary Canon
As I suggested earlier, the biographical narrative of Austen as maiden aunt has
been a highly productive and structuring narrative of Austen's canonical
positioning. However, this narrative has also to some extent become
overdetermined by ...
3
Ward's miscellany (and family magazine).
But the maiden aunt is chiefly useful to her male collateral descendants, by
exercising their ingenuity, and sharpening their wits, when a year or two at school
has rubbed off the respectful awe which she inspired in the atmosphere of the ...
4
Habit in the English Novel, 1850-1900: Lived Environments, ...
She too, for a home, could have lived with them: they made her fond of the old
maiden-aunt; they made her even wonder if it didn't work more for happiness not
to have tasted, as she herself had done, of knowledge. Without resources,
without ...
5
Pulp Classics: Weird Trails (April 1933)
She explained that she was traveling with her maiden aunt, who was a teetotaler
and such a stickler for early-to-bed-and-early-to- rise that her being a maiden
was even less surprising than her being an aunt, and that her aunt was dead ...
6
Science Fiction, Children's Literature, and Popular Culture: ...
Stratemeyer first suggested a maiden aunt as a solution to an emerging story
problem: It had been established that Fenton Hardy was frequently out of town for
weeks at a time working on important cases, and the Hardy Boys of course also ...
7
The Secret of the Hardy Boys: Leslie McFarlane and the ...
In response to his portrayal of Aunt Gertrude in The Missing Chums, Les received
instructions to make the visiting maiden aunt a permanent character. And he was
only too happy to do it: “If there was a turning point in the series that was it,” he ...
Marilyn S. Greenwald, 2004
She too, for a home, could have lived with them : they made her fond of the old
maiden-aunt ; they made her even wonder if it did n't work more for happiness not
to have tasted, as she herself had done, of knowledge. Without resources ...
9
Radio--: The Forgotten Medium
13. The. BBC—. From. Maiden. Aunt. to. Sexy. Upstart. Asa Briggs "Suddenly," a
British journalist recently observed, "the wireless is a red-hot sexy medium? For
years it was the maiden aunt of broadcasting, but now there are superstars and ...
Edward C. Pease, Everette E. Dennis
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Hints towards the formation of character, by a plain-spoken ...
Hints. poor, perhaps, to send the children to school, who is it, while the mother is
occupied with her bahy, that instructs the girls, and sometimes the younger boys,
imparting to them her own little stock of information? The maiden aunt.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MAIDEN AUNT»
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maiden aunt is used in the context of the following news items.
Op-Ed: NRA tells Australia 'There will be blood' Um, no.
If you pull out a gun in Australia, you may be thought a little Maiden Aunt-ish, as well as dumber than a house brick for asking for that extra ... «Digital Journal, Jul 15»
Why is one sibling always left to care for elderly parents? Asks KATE …
At 51, I have slipped into the role of maiden aunt - that derided central figure in large Victorian families who gave up the chance of marriage to ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
Civil War veteran receives headstone in rural Callaway cemetery
They were in Colorado in early 1915, though, because Jennie received a manuscript from her maiden aunt concerning the Bloss genealogy, ... «North Platte Bulletin, Jul 15»
Kia Soul EV adds features, wireless charging coming
But whereas the LEAF is seen by most as a slightly frumpy maiden aunt, the Soul EV is viewed as hip, happening kind of car for young moderns ... «ecomento.com, Jul 15»
The 'surplus' post-war women who came east and forged careers
... subsequently never found anyone else to marry – as an object of pity, her nieces gradually came to see their maiden aunt very differently. «South China Morning Post, Jul 15»
Ashes 2015: England v Australia – first Test, day two – as it happened
Watto declines both invites in the manner of a maiden aunt being asked to a warehouse rave. Stokes ends the over with the perfect delivery to ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
When the flower spotter was king with his I-Spy and Observer's books
My love of wild flowers began as soon as I could walk with my mother, father and aged maiden aunt pointing out the flowers around my faltering ... «Western Morning News, Jul 15»
Restaurant review: Lindores has so much more than breakfasts on …
It features the pre-hipster preference for stripped pine, cosy fireplaces and the intimacy of your maiden aunt's front parlour. It's not trendy, but it's ... «Belfast Telegraph, Jul 15»
In the Night of Time
Wide-hipped (quite a bit is made of this) wife Adela, once tipped for maiden aunt-dom, cannot compete and Ignacio flees to New York and ... «InDaily, Jun 15»
REVIEW: Pop legend plays all the hits at first Cornish show in 30 …
His maiden aunt waddle between songs, as he geed up the audience, was an obvious sign that he's no longer the strutting peacock of yore; ... «West Briton, Jun 15»
