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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]