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    Governesses' Benevolent Institution in London. Katherine Swynford (c. 1350 – 1403), governess to the children of John of Gaunt, became his mistress and...
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    Royal Brompton Hospital), the Governesses' Institute (presumably the School Mistresses and GovernessesBenevolent Institution), the Home for Decayed Gentlewomen...
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    Hattersley, p. 21 Camp, Anthony (2007), Royal Mistresses and Bastards: Fact and Fiction, 1714–1936 "Royal Mistresses and Bastards: Nos. 25–29", anthonyjcamp.com...
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    Women's rights (category Harv and Sfn no-target errors)
    Mediterranean countries such as Italy and Greece." The tradition in French culture for upper-class men to have mistresses, coupled with the toleration for...
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    being either "of a lazy, or a benevolent, or a sarcastic mood". As Lord David Cecil remarked, "Thackeray liked people, and for the most part he thought...
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    Charles Sumner (category Boston Latin School alumni)
    benevolent institution, said it stifled economic development in the South, and that it left slaveholders reliant on "the bludgeon, the revolver, and the...
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  • James Herbert Page, lately Secretary, Schoolmistresses and Governesses Benevolent Institution. Agnes Olive Paget, Director, Redcliffe Old People's Welfare...
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  • Committee of the Governesses' Benevolent Institution. Helen Roberts Harrison ARRC Assistant Secretary, Scottish Juvenile Welfare and After-Care Office...
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