Mistresses: A History of the Other Woman
Language: English
Pages: 528
ISBN: 1468300555
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
She has been known as the "kept woman," the "fancy woman," and the "other woman." She exists as both a fictional character and a flesh-and-blood human being. But what do Madame de Pompadour, Jane Eyre, and Camilla Parker-Bowles have in common? Why do women become mistresses, and is a mistress merely a wife-in-waiting, or is she the very definition of the emancipated, independent female?
In Mistresses, Elizabeth Abbott intelligently examines the motives and morals of some of the most infamous and fascinating women in history and literature. Drawing intimate portraits of those who have—whether by chance, coercion, or choice– assumed this complex role, from Chinese concubines and European royal mistresses to mobster molls and trophy girlfriends, Mistresses offers a rich blend of history, personal biography, and cultural insight.
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Through the long nights. Though he often criticized her, Bloomingdale was satisfied enough with his mistress to take her traveling and to introduce her as a wealthy young Republican, though presumably nobody was fooled. She met and charmed his friends, leaders in American industry. She measured herself against their wives and began to nourish an ambition to become one of them, a woman of significance in Los Angeles society. Above all, she shopped. Every day, she roamed Beverly Hills and.
Genres of literature create worlds that to some degree reflect real life, and many classic novels are devoted to those most familiar and ubiquitous of social institutions, marriage and the mistressdom that so regularly accompanies it. In these invented worlds, fictional lovers often resemble living lovers. Many heroines (or antiheroines) are spinsters seeking a loving marriage, or wives, happily or unhappily married. Others are mistresses enmeshed in illicit relationships forged by love and.
Sickly coconspirator cannot survive this latest blow. In the novel’s grand finale, Dimmesdale mounts the infamous scaffold, and Hester and their daughter, Pearl, join him. By this final and belated surrender to Puritan justice, Dimmesdale has destroyed Chillingworth’s hold over him. “Hadst thou sought the whole earth over,” the frustrated Chillingworth complains, “there was no place … thou couldst have escaped me—save on this very scaffold!” As the Puritans watch, Dimmesdale kisses his daughter.
Real, this argument suggests to us Aspasia’s views on relationships between men and women—that they enter them on the same terms and must be equally committed to seeking the path of virtue. In other words, Pericles’ mistress seems to have been an advocate of an egalitarianism monumentally at odds with the rigid stratification and codified inequality of her time and place. Meanwhile, Pericles spent much of his time at home so he could be with Aspasia, but nonetheless devoted himself to the.