Going through the archives is very inspiring: watching how the lovers will move from tenderness to treacheries, seeing all those painstakingly crafted love-letters, reading how friends become mistresses become wives… The love-letters in particular always give me a lump in my throat.
She became mistress, guide, and interpreter to Hernán Cortés during his conquest of Mexico.
Overnight she became mistress of a James Herriot-style farmhouse and 1,000 sheep.
She was born in Paris, married Charles Guillaume le Normant d'Etoiles in 1741, then in 1745 became mistress to Louis XV.
She rebelled, drank too much, dropped out of college, became mistress to her best friend's stepfather, a wealthy married lawyer, in a spectacularly ill-advised affair.
Jerzy's daughter Barbara (1520 51) became mistress and then queen to King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland, thus greatly enhancing the family's position in Lithuania.
Meryl Streep was in the wings to star as the Argentine actress who became mistress and wife to the dictator Juan Peron and a national hero.
Tells of how Miss Leighton became mistress of the gardens and of the history of St . Lukes Church, which, since 1892, has been a chapel of the parish of Trinity Church.
The title track was inspired by Lola Montez, an itinerant Irish-born burlesque dancer in the 19th century who became mistress to the king of Bavaria and used her power to advance a liberal agenda.
Rebekka, who had disembarked as a "plump, comely and capable" young woman, becomes Mistress, and, after gamely coping with the wilderness, the deaths of three infant children and of a five-year-old daughter, and her husband's untimely dying, takes to her bed in despair: "The wide untrammeled space that once thrilled her became vacancy.
