Dowager

The Empress Dowager is off limits, but anyone else ...

May 2005 2005

The Denver family were all there; the Dowager is a darling, like a small eighteenth-century marquise, but the Duchess looked a tartar, very cross, and as stiff as a poker.

Busman's Honeymoon Sayers, Dorothy L. 1937

Robin Drummond, he thought of women with a chivalrous tenderness somewhat strange considering that the Dowager was his mother.

Mary Gray Katharine Tynan 1896

"The Dowager was a middle-aged woman dressed in rusty black, with a quick eye and an eager expression.

John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein Frank Richard Stockton 1868

(My lord used to call the Dowager of Chelsey by this and other names.) “Blandford has a lock of her hair: the

The History of Henry Esmond 1852

(My lord used to call the Dowager of Chelsey by this and other names.) "Blandford has a lock of her hair: the Duchess found him on his knees to Mistress Trix, and boxed his ears, and said

The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

A sad day for the House of Stuart, Her Grace the Dowager Queen Henrietta Maria has died in her sleep at Colombes in her native country of France.

Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

The Dowager Queen had previously refused the draught, claiming that such things did not agree with her constitution.

Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

I could go on and on, listing virtually every cast member but climaxing with Maggie Smith, a shameless scene stealer every time she walks into a room as Violet Crawley, Dowager Duchess of Grantham.

Michael Giltz: DVDs: "Downton Abbey" Frothy Fun Michael Giltz 2011

Then in the early 20th century the sinologist Edmund Backhouse published with a journalist a counterfeit memoir supposedly written by a member of the royal court of the last Empress Dowager of China.

A Blog, a Hoax and a Literary Tradition Joe Queenan 2011