Author: Mavis Cheek

Cites

• Sara Mendelsohn & Patricia Crawford (1)
  • IN: Mrs Fytton's Country Life (2000) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The seventeenth century marked the beginning of the separation of the place of work from the home... Once a woman lost the ability to support herself andher family through domestic activity centered on the household, she found herself very disadvantaged compared with men... women were in a weak position in the labour market.
    FROM: Women in Early Modern England, (1998), Book, NULL
• Gloria Steinem (1)
  • IN: Mrs Fytton's Country Life (2000) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Robert Browning (1)
  • IN: Truth to Tell (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: So absolutely good is truth, truth never hurts The teller.
    FROM: Fifine at the Fair, (1872), Poem, UK
• Christopher Morley (1)
  • IN: Truth to Tell (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: It is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth Impromptu.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Christopher Mount (1)
  • IN: Amenable Women (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Everybody praises the lady's beauty, both of face and body. One said she excelled the Duchess as the golden sun did the silver moon...
    FROM: describing Anne of Cleves, (1539), NULL, UK
• de Marillac, Charles (1)
  • IN: Amenable Women (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: King Henry has sent a painter, who is very excellent in his art, to Germany, to take a portrait to the life, of the sister of the duke of Cleves... Today it arrived... The face of the young lady appeared sufficiently lovely to decide Henry on accepting her...
    FROM: NULL, (1539), NULL, France
• Henry VIII (1)
  • IN: Amenable Women (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: My Lord, if it were not to satisfy the world, and my realm, I would not do that which I must do this day for none earthly thing.
    FROM: to Anne of Cleves, (1540), NULL, UK
• M. Hume (1)
  • IN: Amenable Women (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Her frame was large bony and masculine and her large, low-German features, deeply pitted with the ravages of smallpox were the very opposite of the type of beauty which would be likely to stimulate a gross, unwholesome voluptuary of nearly fifty...
    FROM: The Wives of Henry VIII, (1905), NULL, UK
• NULL (1)
  • IN: The Lovers of Pound Hill (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Gnome 'dwarf-like earth-dwelling spirit,' 1712, from Fr. gnome, from L. gnomus, used 16c, in a treatise by Paracelsus, who gave the name pigmaei or gnomi to elemental earth beings, possibly from Gk. 'genomos 'earth-dweller.' Popular in children's lierature 19c. as a name for red-capped Ger. and Swiss folklore dwards. Garden figurines first imported to England late 1860s from Germany.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• George Etherege (1)
  • IN: The Lovers of Pound Hill (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The Blessed, that immortal be, From change in love are only free... ...Were it not madness to deny To live because we're sure to die?
    FROM: To a Lady asking him how long he would love her', (1672), Poem, UK
• Henry Newbolt (1)
  • IN: Parlous Times (1989) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: This they all with a joyful mind Bear through life like a torch in flame, And falling, fling to the host behind -- 'Play up! Play up! and play the game!'
    FROM: Vitai Lampada, (1892), Poem, UK
• Christopher Marlowe (1)
  • IN: Aunt Margaret's Lover (1994) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: O, thou art fairer than the evening's air, Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter, When he appear'd to hapless Semele: More lovely than the monarch of the sky, In wanton Arethusa's azured arms, And none but thou shalt be my paramour. Not tonight, Josephine.
    FROM: Doctor Faustus, (1604), Play, UK