She served on the London school board (1870 73), becoming mistress at Girton (1873 75).
How glad I am that I overcame my Pride and Prejudice to make you my bride and how happy I am we have two healthy sons, both like me, called Fitzwilliam!" Elizabeth, who seemed to have lost the sardonic edge that had made her one of the most memorable heroines in literature since becoming mistress to one of the largest estates in Derbyshire, smiled sweetly.
"Such things are simply unaffordable, but becoming a mistress can solve this problem".
She captivated the king, becoming his mistress for some 16 years until his death in 1685.
After raising three sons, who survive her, she returned to teaching in 1960, becoming senior mistress at a Shropshire secondary school, in charge of sex education.
When Elizabeth rejects her suitor's offer of becoming his mistress she feels "a secret triumph" that she had been "left entirely to [her] own guidance".
"I've got to go," Ellen replied, though both she and Newland knew what she was really saying was that she loved him deeply, yet did not want to compromise him by becoming his mistress.
She plays Nelly Ternan, a young actress of indeterminate talent who captures the author's eye and heart, but wrestles (philosophically, morally, practically) with the idea of becoming his mistress.
Jurgis is injured, loses his job, and takes to drink; his pretty young wife, who also works in the meatpacking district, is bullied by her foreman into becoming his mistress; their little boy drowns in the Packingtown muck.
In "12 Years a Slave," McQueen offers a wise and empathetic view of the house slave, Mistress Shaw (played by Alfre Woodard), who has escaped from the slave owner's most brutal treatment by becoming his mistress — and who, in the process, makes whatever use she can of her improved situation to help other slaves.
They became known generically as Fallen Women girls who had dashed their chances of marriage and a happy life by having an inconvenient baby out of wedlock (something that seldom seemed to happen to the upper classes) or becoming the mistress of a blackguard.
