femmellette

Updated: May 1, 2025

Is it marvellous, asks Christine, that a woman “une chose simplète, une ignorante petite femmellette,” as she expresses it should be betrayed by man, when even the great city of Troy was, and when all the books and romances are full of the betrayal of kings and kingdoms?

Alice Kemp-Welch - Of Six Mediæval Women: To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens