"The Duchess" Who Wasn't Day 2024 is on Tuesday, August 27, 2024: Why was Duchess of York given such a hard time over her weight?

Tuesday, August 27, 2024 is "The Duchess" Who Wasn't Day 2024. August 27) Today we're celebrating . . . " The Duchness" Who Wasn ... The Duchess Who Wasn't Day

“The Duchess” Who Wasn’t Day remembers the existence of Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, an irish novelist who had been always released underneath the pen title “The Duchess” within the U . s . States – even the title of her most widely used novel, released in 1887. Margaret accounts for the most popular phrase “Beauty is incorporated in the eye from the beholder”, in her own book Molly Bawn, so try to slip it into conversation!As a whole, The Duchess had a minimum of 57 works credited to her title but tend to wrote many, a lot more as many her early work was released as Anonymous, and then as Mrs Hungerford, before “The Duchess” grew to become popular in the usa. She also authored many newspaper articles coupled with a sizable family – four kids and 2 sons.Born around the 27th April 1855 in County Cork, she won awards in class for writing tales. Following the dying of her first husband in 1876 The Duchess required to writing more seriously to aid her three kids, also it was soon after this that her first book “Phyllis” was written, along with a little afterwards “Molly Bawn”.She remarried in 1882, had two sons along with a daughter together with her second husband and finally died of typhoid fever in 1897.

Lady Chatterjee is correct that in their day this kind of press that snipes at celebrities and royalty about their appearance didn't exist, and royalty and public figures were generally written about with respect.

It's also true that slimness wasn't nearly as admired then as it is now. In any culture where thousands of people are not merely eating a poor diet but actually can't afford to get enough to eat, to carry a comfortable reserve of fat is positively admirable.

Will Beckham be knighted one day?

Dutch? I wasn't aware a knighthood turned you into a legal citizen of the Netherlands...

I think you mean DUKE and the female version, Duchess.

And if he was knighted he would be neither, he would be a Knight...

It looks like he might be, the contribution he has made to English football, British sport and for the game around the world is certainly worth a look. I'm not a big fan of Beckham, but you have to recognise peoples achievements and he has had many.

Look at the USA, it is likely the MLS would still be unheard of if not for Beckham, and the way he inspired in the Beijing Olympics.

The work he did in Africa was especially noble.

I support your notion, Beckham for a knighthood.

But also Kenny Dalglish, he has been instrumental in Liverpool success.

EDIT: People seem to misunderstand what constitutes a Knighthood - Being good is not an excuse, it's what you do with the fame and success that decides your worth. And David Beckham has done a lifesworth.

If it is on ability alone, then all of you would be agreeing to give C.Ronaldo a knighthood.

Enjambment in the poem, My Last Duchess, by Robert Browning?

My Last Duchess

That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,

Looking as if she were alive. I call

That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolf's hands

Worked busily a day, and there she stands.

Will 't please you sit and look at her? I said

'Frà Pandolf' by design, for never read

Strangers like you that pictured countenance,

The depth and passion of its earnest glance,

But to myself they turned (since none puts by

The curtain I have drawn for you, but I)

And seemed as they would ask me, if they durst,

How such a glance came there; so, not the first

Are you to turn and ask thus. Sir, 't was not

Her husband's presence only, called that spot

Of joy into the Duchess' cheek: perhaps

Frà Pandolf chanced to say, 'Her mantle laps

Over my lady's wrist too much,' or 'Paint

Must never hope to reproduce the faint

Half-flush that dies along her throat:' such stuff

Was courtesy, she thought, and cause enough

For calling up that spot of joy. She had

A heart -- how shall I say? -- too soon made glad,

Too easily impressed; she liked whate'er

She looked on, and her looks went everywhere.

Sir, 't was all one! My favour at her breast,

The dropping of the daylight in the West,

The bough of cherries some officious fool

Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule

She rode with round the terrace -- all and each

Would draw from her alike the approving speech,

Or blush, at least. She thanked men, -- good! but thanked

Somehow -- I know not how -- as if she ranked

My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name

With anybody's gift. Who'd stoop to blame

This sort of trifling? Even had you skill

In speech -- (which I have not) -- to make your will

Quite clear to such an one, and say, 'Just this

Or that in you disgusts me; here you miss,

Or there exceed the mark' -- and if she let

Herself be lessoned so, nor plainly set

Her wits to yours, forsooth, and made excuse,

-- E'en then would be some stooping; and I choose

Never to stoop. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt,

Whene'er I passed her; but who passed without

Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands;

Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands

As if alive. Will 't please you rise? We'll meet

The company below then. I repeat,

The Count your master's known munificence

Is ample warrant that no just pretence

Of mine for dowry will be disallowed;

Though his fair daughter's self, as I avowed

At starting, is my object. Nay, we'll go

Together down, sir. Notice Neptune, though,

Taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity,

Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!

Robert Browning

You know what enjambment is, right? Its the continuation of a thought past the end of a line. If there's a period, a question mark, or an exclamation point at the end of a line, then obviously a thought has finished there. If there's any other punctuation mark at the end of a line, then there's a good chance that a thought has finished there, although that's not an absolutely sure thing. If there's no punctuation mark at the end of a line, then there's a good chance that the thought carries over into the next line and you're looking at an example of enjambment. (Again, that's not an absolutely sure thing, just a rule of thumb you can use to get you started.)

Look at the first few lines of Browning's poem. The first line contains a complete thought. The speaker is pointing at a painting on the wall. You get to the end of that line, and you don't feel like you're in the middle of a thought, waiting for the speaker to finish. The second line is a different story. If you heard somebody say "I call" and then break off, you would know that whatever thought the person was starting to express wasn't finished yet. The third line also ends in the middle of a thought. The speaker has mentioned somebody's hands, but you're left hanging, not knowing what he wants to tell you about those hands. Line four, though, ends at the end of a sentence. The idea has been completely expressed. A painter's hands worked at their job all day, and there's the portrait I have to show for it. So two of those first four lines are enjambed, and two aren't. Now read through the rest of the poem a few lines at a time. It won't take you long to get the knack of spotting when a thought is completed at the end of a line and when it carries over into the next line.