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