Search results

Genteel poverty is a state of poverty marked by one's connection or affectation towards a higher ("genteel") social class. Those in genteel poverty are...

his deathbed promise to his father, and leaves the Dashwood women in genteel poverty. Fanny Dashwood – the wife of John Dashwood, always referred to as...

Dalmatians. The novel concerns an eccentric family struggling to live in genteel poverty in a decaying castle during the 1930s. The first-person narrator is...

Cedric Errol lives with his mother (known to him as "Dearest") in genteel poverty after the death of his father, Captain Cedric Errol. One day, they...

a new neighborhood (loosely based on Concord) in Massachusetts in genteel poverty. Having lost all his money, their father is serving as a chaplain for...

depression for many years. In 2024, he described himself as living in "genteel poverty" after spending the money he received from an inheritance in the 2000s...

Cassandra Mortmain, and her eccentric family, struggling to survive in genteel poverty in a decaying English castle. The characters include her father, a...

stock attributes." Polly Welts Kaufman shows that the schoolma'am's "genteel poverty, unbending morality, education, and independent ways make her character...

book's heroine, to the latter's almost immediate remorse. Living in genteel poverty with her ageing widow of a mother and only one servant, Miss Bates...

and love was the antidote to promulgating hatred and war. Living in genteel poverty was more "honest" than amassing a nest egg and a house in the suburbs...

Blakely. Young Cedric 'Ceddie' Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1870s New York after the death of his father. He was the favorite...

convalescence after suffering problems with her lungs. The Kims lived in genteel poverty at the mercy of their arrogant landlord, Ji-tae, son of the business...

sisters—Meg, Jo, Amy, and Beth—live with their mother in a state of genteel poverty, their father having lost the family's fortune to an unscrupulous businessman...

of "Amazons", mostly widows or elderly unmarried women, living in genteel poverty and concealing the fact under what they call "elegant economy". These...

per year annuity for their mother, allowing the family to live in genteel poverty. Christian spent seven years at the Cockermouth Free School from the...

becomes a servant for a family that was once wealthy but is sinking into genteel poverty due to the husband's infidelities and spending sprees. Their only income...

Eynsford-Hills, superficial social climbers eking out a living in "genteel poverty". We first see Mrs Eynsford-Hill and her daughter Clara; Clara's brother...

Gibbons after Tintoretto's "Crucifixion". Simon Jenkins's reference to "genteel poverty" is only half the truth. Except on rare occasions in aid of charity...

Thatcher—Ellen's father is an accountant and her early life was one of genteel poverty. She aspires to become an actress, which is not socially acceptable...

grew up in an era when "the Shenandoah Valley was still a place of genteel poverty ... Harry Byrd never lacked food, but he had no money for luxuries...