Category
page 1Ladies companions
Mary Wollstonecraft
English writer and intellectual (1759–1797)
Flora Tristan
French writer and suffragist (1803-1844)
Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse
French Salon-holder
Claude de Vin des Œillets
Mistress of Louis XIV of France
Johanna Mestorf
German prehistoric archaeologist and Professor (1828–1909)
Louise Bjørnsen
Danish author
Ernestine Lambriquet
foster daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
Cathrine Marie Møller
Danish artist (1744–1811)
lady's companion
woman of genteel birth who lives with a woman of rank or wealth as retainer