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... gentleman Henry Bellingham. Ruth, pregnant and alone, is taken in by a minister and his sister. They conceal her single status under the pretence of widowhood in order to protect her child from the social stigma of illegitimacy. Ruth goes on to gain a respectable position in society as a governess, which is threatened by the return of Bellingham and the revelation of her ...

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...usband is dead and she has to carry both the social stigma of the disease and widowhood for no fault of hers. She has the added burden of supporting... ...owed at 11 years even before attaining puberty and was seen to observe strict widowhood though she has lived with 127 him only for one month. This... ...issues? They say no child marriages but it takes place in practice and child widowhood is observed, who is going to take care of her? What is her l... ...ight the discrimation against HIV/AIDS that too in societies like ours where widowhood is a large stigma. This brave woman bearing two sorrows has ...

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...the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his ...

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...the fifty-first chapter of Isaiah, regarding this very poor one in the state of widowhood, solitude, and distress, wherein she is now found, extende... ...these things shall come upon thee suddenly in one day, the loss of children and widowhood.” From all which, it will not be difficult to infer, that ... ... two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children and widowhood…And desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou s... ...shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.” Isa. liv. 4. “Rejoice and be glad for the child... ...hat hath happened to her in the times of her blindness, of her darkness, of her widowhood, of her barrenness, of her transmigration, and dispersion ...

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... immolate herself on her husband’s funeral pyre in the act of Suttee, thus avoiding the stigma of widowhood. Now, thank goodness, this brutal practi...

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...s left to her —to wit, hope; and this in order to give it to another, who is neither in widowhood nor poverty, but full of wealth and overflowing wit... ...en to this ancient spouse of God in no other condition than that condition of solitude, widowhood, and desertion, wherein she hath remained since Me... ...ness in the latter days.” Hosea iii. 4, 5. You see here the true state of solitude and widowhood in which Zion was left since Messiah, and in which...

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...the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his...

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...nd! The woman consenting to mar- riage takes but one. For her there is no widowhood. That punctuation of the sentence called death is not the end of... ... widow of the great and venerable Pro- fessor Towers is not to measure her widowhood by years. His, from the altar to the tomb. As it might be read, a... ...our veil, your knife and fork; Your tenfold worship of your widowhood; As he who sees he must yield up the flag, ...

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...morable Among illustrious women, faithful wives: Cherish thy hast’n’d widowhood with the gold Of Matrimonial treason: so farewel. Dal....

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...rried life had been passed away from it, and she had returned in her early widowhood to become pro- prietress and manager, or, as one may say, the hea...

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...s laid in the grave, I need not tell. She had already counted ten years of widowhood, and her 4 The Courtship of Susan Bell children had grown to be ...

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...re had striven to extract from this accident something of the austerity of widowhood; but her mourn- ing only made her deviation more public, she was ...

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... her husband’s fortune to such good account that, after eighteen months of widowhood, she had about forty thou- sand francs a year. Her marriage to th...

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... advantage by any betrayal of indifference. Dur- ing the first year of her widowhood their friendship dragged on with halting renewals of sentiment, b...

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... over her, and she was fully dressed in the black and white weeds of royal widowhood. The light of day was excluded, and hosts of wax candles burnt ar... ...upy it. A curtain was lifted, and she came forward in her deepest robes of widowhood, leading her little granddaughter Mary , a child of eight or nine...

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...s, only of facts: her marriage, her bondage. Her condemnation to perpetual widowhood angered him, as at an unrighteous decree. The sharp sweet bloom o... ...lowances for her erratic husband, could offer none for the woman of a long widowhood, that had become a trebly sensitive maidenhood; abashed by her kn... ...at, and wished rather to shun his confidences while T ony was in her young widowhood, revelling in her joy of liberty. By and by, was her thought: per...

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...is lady a letter in a plate of cucumbers, to advise her of her approaching widowhood, and the hour of flight, with all of which was the fair citizen w...

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...she told him that the Duc d’Argaiolo was in danger, and one announcing her widowhood—two noble and beautiful letters which Rosalie kept back. After se...

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... for inquiring directly after her — now possibly in the ninth month of her widowhood — and endeavouring to get a notion of her middle of the haymaking... ...ncholy conjectures, and Christmas day came, completing a year of her legal widowhood, and two years and a quarter of her life alone. On examining her ...

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...tly, during the last six months she had suffered as never before since her widowhood. Lucien might have borne the name of Lucien de Rubempre by royal ...