Gentlewoman - Some Uses in Literature

Some Uses in Literature

• Isabella Whitney, The Copy of a Letter, Lately Written in Meter by a Young Gentlewoman: to her Unconstant Lover, ca. 1567 earliest known volume of English language secular poetry published by a woman
• Jane Anger: Her Protection for Women to defend them against the scandalous reports of a late surfeiting Lover... Written by Jane Anger, Gentlewoman at London (1589)
• Richard Braithwaite's The English Gentlewoman (1631), followed his The English Gentleman (1630), both being books about acceptable behaviour.
• "Helena, a Gentlewoman", in All's Well That Ends Well
• A Yorkshire Gentlewoman and Her Son by George Chapman (17th century)
• "Quartilla, gentlewoman to Triphoena", in Holland's Leaguer (1631) by Shackerley Marmion
• "Mrs Pleasant, a handsome young Gentlewoman of a good fortune" in The Parson's Wedding (1641) by Thomas Killigrew
• Anne Bradstreet, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up into America, by a Gentlewoman in such Parts (1647)
• Hannah Woolley, The Gentlewoman's Companion; or, a Guide to the Female Sex (1673)
• Eliza Smith, The Compleat Housewife: or, Accomplished Gentlewoman’s Companion (16th edition ed., 1758)
• The Gentlewoman's Magazine (18th century periodical)
• Arvind Nehra, Letters of an Indian Judge to an English Gentlewoman (1934)
• Charles Angell Bradford, Blanche Parry, Queen Elizabeth's Gentlewoman (1935)
• Margery Sharp The Foolish Gentlewoman (1948)
• Langton, A., A Gentlewoman in Upper Canada (1950)
• Mary Hallock Foote, A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West: The Reminiscences of Mary Hallock Foote (1972)