Mistresses
449. Mistresses (See also Courtesanship, Prostitution.)
- Abra favorite concubine of Solomon. [Br. Lit.: Solomon on the Vanity of the World, Benét, 3]
- Bains, Lulu to Elmer Gantry. [Am. Lit.: Elmer Gantry ]
- Brangwen, Ursula living with Anton Skrebensky without marriage license causes shock. [Br. Lit.: The Rainbow, Magill I, 800–802]
- Bridehead, Sue of Jude Fawley; two children by him. [Br. Lit.: Jude the Obscure ]
- Burden, Joanna mistress and benefactor to Joe Christmas. [Am. Lit.: Light in August ]
- Gournay, Mlle. de Montaigne’s “adopted daughter.” [Fr. Hist.: Brewer Handbook, 633]
- Guinevere, Queen King Arthur’s wife; Sir Launcelot’s mistress. [Br. Lit.: Le Morte d’Arthur ]
- Lady Chatterly mistress of the gamekeeper Mellors. [Br. Lit.: Lawrence Lady Chatterly’s Lover in Benét, 559]
- Maintenon, Marquise de royal mistress and later wife of Louis XIV. [Fr. Hist.: Benét, 622]
- Merle, Mme . Osmund’s mistress, by whom he has a daughter, Pansy. [Am. Lit.: James Portrait of a Lady in Magill I, 766]
- Perdita stage name of Mary Robinson, mistress of George IV when he was Prince of Wales. [Br. Hist.: Benét, 773]
- Pompadour, Marquise de influential mistress of Louis XV. [Fr. Hist.: Benét, 802]
- Roxana mistress of many before marrying one of her lovers. [Br. Lit.: Roxana ]
- Simonet, Albertine paramour of narrator. [Fr. Lit.: Remembrance of Things Past ]
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