Word: ladyhood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides her honest, very neatly told, never uninteresting story, Mrs. Keith presents the psychological spectacle of a likable, genteel lady who may crossruff but never cancel her ladyhood. Seen through that lens, her portrait of Borneo is seriously limited...
Emma, Lady Hamilton did not start as a lady, and according to Biographer Bowen, achieved ladyhood only technically. Her real name was Amy Lyon; her father was a blacksmith. Her profession, which she adopted in her teens, was "pleasing the gentlemen." Sir Harry Featherstonehaugh kicked her out because she was too noisy and expensive; the Hon. Charles Francis Greville got her cheap and did his skillful best to make a Galatea of her. He moderated her voice, calmed her taste in clothes, formed her manners, taught her to strike classical attitudes. When she was presentable he let her be seen...