10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MAIDISHNESS»
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maidishness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
maidishness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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NEW ILLUSTRATED SELF-INSTRUCTOR
Are perfectly systematic, and are very particular about order, even to old-
maidishness ; work far beyond strength to have things just so ; and with large
Ideality, and an active temperament, and only fair Vitality, are liable to break
down health ...
O.S. AND L.N. FOWLER, 1859
... contemptuously declare was only invented to disgust and persecute sick
people ; and she looked up now, to see how he was affected by the order, which
he certainly would attribute to Ida's old maidishness, and " doll-ishness of
character.
Ellen L. Biscoe Hollis, 1864
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A Companion to Jane Austen
By their unseemly display of an enthusiasm and attachment so enlivening and so
contagious as to become an adhesive identity, sociable Janeites - if they
sometimes agreeably fulfill D. H. Lawrence's expectation of their old maidishness
...
Claudia L. Johnson, Clara Tuite, 2011
There was Lyman with his “funny New England old maidishness,” Trowbridge
mused, commanding “some college boys ..., a really good technical officer or two,
a few rough-necked enlisted men, and a few splendid specimens like the big
trees ...
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Delphi Complete Works of L. M. Montgomery (Illustrated):
That was just her old maidishness. Shewould notbe ridden by it. On wentthe
dress —the slippers. It was the first time she had worn a pretty dresssince the
organdies of her early teens.And they had never madeherlook like this. If she
onlyhad a ...
Lucy Maud Montgomery, 2013
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Further Chronicels of Avonlea
“Oh, the little darling,” cried Miss Rosetta, all her old maidishness and oddity
falling away from herlike a garment, and all her innate and denied motherhood
shining outin her facelike a transforming illumination. “Oh, the sweet,dear,
prettylittle ...
Lucy Maud Montgomery, 2012
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Music in a New Found Land: Themes and Developments in the ...
The softly whirring moto perpetuo of scales suggests the sisters' busy domesticity
and gaiety of heart, while the cross-rhythms of the vocal line convey their old-
maidishness, their hate-fear of Man. The moto perpetuo is in a mixoly- dian G ...
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Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London
... outside the supports and constraints of male authority and family. She was not
a wife or widow, mother or daughter. “Spinster,” with its connotations of
dependence, redundancy, and old maidishness, was the most readily available
category ...
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Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses
The peasantlike old-maidishness that is poorly ventilated in Catholicism sank
mustily over me. Are such awful detours necessary in order to arrive at this
moment of song? Are detours necessary? Jolts, spasms, aimlessness, different
ideas?
Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft, 1995
"It's a funny thing," my father used to say, "but my sister Renee, although she was
married for eight years before she lost her husband, exhibits the type of old
maidishness in all its baleful perfection." My Aunt Chausson, who was much
older ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MAIDISHNESS»
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The Woman Behind the Curtain: Gillespie and I by Jane Harris
A contemporary reader may find these are Harriet's more likable qualities, in contrast to her prying demeanor and fussy old maidishness. «Huffington Post, Jan 12»
