adjective, the term distaff is used to describe the female side of a family. The corresponding term for the male side of a family is the "spear" side. In Western...

The Distaff Side is a 1933 comedy play by the British writer John Van Druten. It premiered at the King's Theatre, Edinburgh before beginning a 102-performance...

distinguished from cognate kinship, through the mother's lineage, also called the spindle side or the distaff side. A patriline ("father line") is a person's...

amend this deficiency, The Distaff Side published its first book, titled Bookmaking on the Distaff Side, which disclosed the monumental contributions...

spinning. Until the spinning wheel was invented in the 14th century, all spinning was done with distaff and spindle. In English the "distaff side" indicates...

through the distaff side (Edward III of England), from the succession to the French throne. After holding the throne for several centuries the Valois male...

Reweaving the Feminine in Homer's Odyssey. Lanham, Maryland and Oxford: Lexington Books. Cohen, Beth (1995, ed.), The Distaff Side: Representing the Female...

(1932) with Gertrude Lawrence and Gerald du Maurier, The Distaff Side (1933), and Flowers of the Forest (1934). He later emigrated to America, where he...

Calamity (1917), A Little Journey (1918), Spring Cleaning (1923), The Distaff Side (1934), The Importance of Being Earnest (which she also directed, 1939),...

because Natwick was "done logging" the land. Her grandfather, Ole Natwick, was one of the earliest Norwegian immigrants to the United States, arriving in Wisconsin...

on August 8, 1977. "Are women the natural enemies of books?" in Bookmaking on the Distaff Side (New York: The Distaff Side, 1937) A portrait of Latin America...

2022. The Broadway League (September 25, 1934). "The Distaff Side – Broadway Play – Original". IBDB. Retrieved January 26, 2022. "The Distaff Side (Broadway...

acknowledge claims from the distaff side. The claim of descent from Menelik I is based on the assertion that the kings of Axum were also the descendants of Menelik...

for the Jumbo Press was the treatise A Typografic Discourse for the Distaff Side of Printing, a Book by Ladies (1937), which was included in the compilation...

Fresh Fields (Criterion, 1933), Liz Frobisher in John Van Druten's The Distaff Side (Apollo, 1933), Barbara Dawe in Clemence Dane's Moonlight Is Silver...

respected missionaries in China. The controversy was front-page news during much of 1901. Ament's counterpart on the distaff side was British missionary Georgina...

the image of the distaff side." Vijiyan, K. N. (12 April 1997). "'Judaai' full of comedy and drama". New Straits Times. pp. Arts 4. Archived from the...

following the untimely death of Wenceslaus II (1305), and the assassination of his only son, Wenceslaus III in 1306, which ended their rule. On the distaff side...

The Brothers is a British television series, produced and shown by the BBC between 1972 and 1976. Debuting with the death of road haulage magnate Robert...

was at the Apollo Theatre in 1933, in The Distaff Side, and the following year she made her Broadway debut in the same play. Her first screen appearance...

Aird, "Part 1: The Robeson Family in Scotland," The Collins Family, Vol. IV, Ancestors of the Distaff Side of the Sixth Generation of The Collins Family...

strandinger og fiskeri og hjalp med pløjning og tærskning. The farms were inherited in the distaff side. The women drive agriculture, while men most took care...

The Painted Veil; Saint Joan and Sidney Howard's domestic drama The Silver Chord. In the West End in September 1933 Thorndike appeared in The Distaff...

Shelley as an 'evil little capitalist' although she is shown to have a kinder side, re-mortgaging her flat so that Shelley and Fran can buy their house. Cyril...

of Nearco through Nasrullah and Princely Gift) each appear once. On the distaff side, Mr. Prospector's dam Gold Digger is a great-granddaughter of Nearco...

Fever at the New Theatre in 1931. Their most successful collaborations over this time were, There's Always Juliet (1932), The Distaff Side (1935), and...

village's Trương clan was the distaff-side relations of Trịnh lords, so lady Trương Thị Trong has entered Trịnh's palace to become the consort Nội-thị cung-tần...

"Przodkowie Adama Mickiewicza po kądzieli" ("Adam Mickiewicz's Ancestors on the Distaff Side"), Blok-Notes Muzeum Literatury im. Adama Mickiewicza, 1999, no. 12/13...

alluded to the antiquity of the Duchess' family, which on the distaff side came from Charlemagne. In 2012, anthropologists excavated the body of Isabella...

Abbey to the Pulley or Pulleyne family, from whom they descended on the distaff side. By 1679, the Maskelyne family had the right to be buried in the south...