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A Fair Maiden is a 2010 novella [1] by Joyce Carol Oates that chronicles the relationship between teenage nanny Katya Spivak and the much older, affluent artist Marcus Kidder. The novel's themes and plot are reminiscent of Vladimir Nabokov 's Lolita .
Joan, Countess of Kent (29 September 1326/1327 [1] – 7 August 1385), known as the Fair Maid of Kent, was the mother of King Richard II of England, her son by her third husband, Edward the Black Prince, son and heir apparent of King Edward III.
Fair Maid may refer to: Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany (1184–1241), Margaret, Maid of Norway (1283–1290), the Fair Maid of Norway; Joan of Kent (1328–1385), the Fair Maid of Kent; Margaret Douglas, Fair Maid of Galloway (died 1474) The Fair Maid of the Inn, a comedy in the canon of John Fletcher; The Fair Maid of Perth, a novel by Sir ...
I saw a fair maiden, sitten and singe, Sche lulled a litel child, a swete lording. Refrain. I saw a fair maiden, sitting and sing, She lulled a little child a sweet lording: Refrain. That eche lord is that that made alle thinge, Of alle lordis he is lord, of alle kynges kyng. Refrain. That eche lord is that that made alle thinge;
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The first part of The Fair Maid of the West opens in Plymouth, between two key events of the Anglo-Spanish War—after the English raid on Cádiz in 1596 and before the so-called "Islands Voyage," the English raid on the Azores in 1597. At the play's start, Bess Bridges is a young woman who works as a tapster in a Plymouth tavern; her beauty ...
One exploration of the theme of the persecuted maiden is the fate of Gretchen in Goethe's Faust. According to the philosopher Schopenhauer : "The great Goethe has given us a distinct and visible description of this denial of the will, brought about by great misfortune and by the despair of all deliverance, in his immortal masterpiece Faust, in ...
Adeliza was renowned for her beauty, reflected in the epithet 'the fair maiden of Brabant'. The chronicler Henry of Huntingdon also mentions Adeliza's beauty in an interlude in his Historia Anglorum, stating, "A jewel grows pale on you, a crown does not shine.