Sentences with phrase «aristocratic women»

The former, in spite of writing a great book, Emile, on how to bring up children, abandoned his own and led a life of sheer hedonism, being constantly supported by wealthy European aristocratic women who were his serial lovers.

The wearing of cosmetics was so integral to the identity of aristocratic women in France that their morning routine of painting the face and dressing the hair became an informal ceremony with an audience, known as the public toilette.

Over the course of one midsummer night, Miss Julie explores the brutal, charged power struggle between a young aristocratic woman and her father's valet.

Yes, I often wondered how Cait acquired her «classiness» - she had not much money, was an abused wife, was not well educated yet seemed to be very open - minded to new circumstances; however, she initially lacked the self - confidence and boldness that many aristocratic women often had at that time.

In the Changsha area of south - central China in the 1970s, archaeologists discovered the tomb of an astonishingly well - preserved, aristocratic woman from the early Han dynasty.

Following the tour, we visit the Monasterio de las Descalzados Reales, or «Monastery of the Barefoot Royals», a convent with a history of providing an escape from unhappy betrothals for aristocratic women.

Rachilde's novel tells the story of Raoule de Vénérande, a masculine aristocratic woman and the working class boy she takes as her mistress, Jacques Silvert.

In a Czech land called «Comenia» that could be Bohemia, first the Nazis and then the Russians impose terror and devastation, through which the author traces the fate of several families, including that of an aristocratic woman who both supported the Nazis and saved the lives of Jews.

Up to that point, aristocratic women had been pressured to retain a «natural» look.

Dutton's novel is as individual and colorful as the woman it portrays, mixing excerpts of Cavendish's striking writing with sharp observations on the privileged but limited life of an aristocratic woman who happened to be a literary genius.

Here, he tackles environmental crimes, an enigmatic and aristocratic woman, and, of course, murder.»

Toby wanted to create an aristocratic woman who was strong, intelligent, independent, athletic and powerful.»

In Tilia of 2012, an aristocratic woman stands in profile in the foreground while the scenic background reveals several classic Morrison motifs: dandelions and field - and - tree pairings abound.

Thomas Gainsborough — Countess Howe, c1763 - 4 There is an almost apocalyptic beauty to this vision of an aristocratic woman in coral pink silks against a misty glowing sky.