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Mrses
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Mrses.
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en [Elénor-François-Elie,] Le C[om]te de Moustier anonymous From Moustier Dorothy Twohig The Papers of George Washington Presidential Series, volume 1 (September 1788–March 1789) Charlottesville, Va. University Press of Virginia 21 November 1788 1987 122 https://archive.org/details/papersofgeorgewa01wash/page/122/mode/1up 0-8139-1103-6 Mde La Mise de Brehan is sensibly touched with the pleasing attention which she experienced from you and the Mrses Washingtons, and has charged me to give her particular thanks to you and beg you, Sir, to tender her sincere compliments to them, to which permit me to have the honor of joining my respectful acknowledgements. fr:Mde Le Mise de Brehan est infiniment touchée des attentions aimables qu’elle a eprouvées de votre part et de celle de Mesdames Washington, Elle me charge de vous faire parvenir tous ses remercimens et de vous prier, Monsieur, de leur faire agréer ses sinceres complimens; permettez que j’aie l’honneur d’y joindre mes respectueux homages. Taken from a translation prepared for George Washington.
en Rob Baum Female Absence: Women, Theatre, and Other Metaphors Brussels P.I.E.-Peter Lang 2003 89 https://books.google.com/books?id=V6xkAAAAMAAJ&q=Mrses 90-5201-172-9 Only women already existing in the social margins became actresses.26 For example, celebrated tragedienne Elizabeth Barry was an orphan, Nell Gwynn a barmaid raised in a brothel, Moll Davis the illegitimate daughter of a Colonel. Other actresses were the wives and daughters of male actors, as for example Mary Saunderson (Mrs Betterton) and (in a later period) Mrses Kean, Kemble and Siddons.
en D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence Do Women Change James T[hompson] Boulton Late Essays and Articles The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence Cambridge, Cambs. w:Cambridge University Press 2004 1930 151–152 https://archive.org/details/lateessaysarticl0000lawr/page/152/mode/1up 0 521 58431 0 In Rome, in Syracuse, in Athens, in Thebes, more than two or three thousand years ago, there was the bobbed-haired, painted, perfumed Miss and Mrs of today, and she inspired almost exactly the feelings that our painted and perfumed Misses and Mrses inspire, in the men. Originally en Mrs. and en Mrses.