While disguised as a Quaker, this woman is almost undone when her daughter Susan discovers a Turkish dress that she had worn in an attempt to seduce the Prince.
This character is told she speaks a sort of "Amazonian language" and is advised about mortgages and interest by Sir Robert Clayton. While disguised as a Quaker, this woman is almost undone when her daughter Susan discovers a Turkish dress that she had worn in an attempt to seduce the Prince. The mother of twelve children, almost all of whom are never mentioned after their births, she repeatedly ponders the question, "Why am I a Whore now?" In a celebrated passage, she calls "the very nature of the marriage contract...nothing but giving up liberty, estate, authority, and everything, to the man." Originally married to a jeweler, this character and her faithful servant (*) Amy travel between England, France, and Holland before she settles down with one of her many lovers, a Dutch merchant who had fathered one of her sons. For 10 points, name this "fortunate mistress," the title character of the anonymously-published last novel of Daniel Defoe.
This character is told she speaks a sort of "Amazonian language" and is advised about mortgages and interest by Sir Robert Clayton.
Roxana: the Fortunate Mistress [or The Fortunate Mistress: Or, A History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, Afterwards Called the Countess de Wintselsheim, in Germany, Being the Person known by the Name of the Lady Roxana, in the Time of King Charles II] [prompt on "the Fortunate Mistress" before mention] [accept Mademoiselle de Beleau or Countess de Wintselsheim]