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His marriage to Sarah Fairbrother was never formally recognised and so she did not receive the title Duchess of Cambridge, becoming known by the nickname Mrs FitzGeorge.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Aside from being a rape apologist, the Duchess is also sexually aggressive in her adultery, actively pursuing Spurio: "Many a wealthy letter have I sent him,/swelled up with jewels, and the timorous man/Is yet but coldly kind."
Final drafting stuff: fantasyecho 2008
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There's always a question, in Duchess, whose tragedy this is, hers or Bosola's, and I'd say here, the honors were pretty much even.
The Duchess of Malfi deliasherman 2010
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There's always a question, in Duchess, whose tragedy this is, hers or Bosola's, and I'd say here, the honors were pretty much even.
The Duchess of Malfi deliasherman 2010
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When the Duchess is stabbed in the Conservatory by a courtly rival, she finds the mourning Duke finally opening himself to the possibility of love beneath his station.
What's in a Genre? Ulysses 2008
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(He doesn't know what the Duchess is discussing with Rachel when he sees them talking on page 300, but from the context it is probably poetry despite their mutual links with Robert de Saint-Loup.)
August Books 22) Finding Time Again nwhyte 2008
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The Duchess is markedly different from either Gratia or Castiza.
Final drafting stuff: fantasyecho 2008
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Word has it that the Duchess is penning her memoirs, but I don't believe it.
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Interestingly, the Duchess never really suffers public fallout within the play for what she has done: Lussurioso simply banishes her: "The Duchess is suspected foully bent;/I'll begin dukedom with her banishment" (5. 1.173-174)
Draft: Women's Negotiations of Moral and Material Status in The Revenger's Tragedy fantasyecho 2008
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When the Duchess is stabbed in the Conservatory by a courtly rival, she finds the mourning Duke finally opening himself to the possibility of love beneath his station.
Archive 2008-10-01 Ulysses 2008
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