Lady Sarahs Fall A Lady of Means # 1
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Alone and unaided, it was a heroic effort and a tribute to her tenacity that she got as far as she did. The country is fearsome: Despite this, Hagar very nearly made it to Egypt. But eventually, exhausted, she stopped at a spring of water in the wilderness of Shur. It would be a special child, a child with a great future. So she retraced her steps and returned to the tribe, and to Sarah.
Retrieved October 5, Indeed, over 90 percent of the or so individuals who are given names in the Hebrew Bible are men. Archived from the original on October 10, Ngaio, Wellington, New Zealand. Within certain traditional states of the Bini and Yoruba peoples in Nigeria, the queen mothers and high priestesses were considered "ritually male" due to their social eminence. The duties of ladies-in-waiting varied from court to court, but functions historically discharged by ladies-in-waiting included proficiency in the etiquette , languages, and dances prevalent at court; secretarial tasks; reading correspondence to her mistress and writing on her behalf; embroidery , painting, horse riding, music making and participation in other queenly pastimes; wardrobe care; supervision of servants; keeping her mistress abreast of activities and personages at court, and discreetly relaying messages upon command.
In modern terms we would probably say that a deep conviction of purpose settled on the person involved, guiding them towards a particular course of action. This situation was not uncommon in societies that practised polygamy. You might read 1 Samuel 1: Their story echoed the situation that existed between Hagar and Sarah. For fourteen years Ishmael was seen as the future heir of Abraham.
He and Hagar were accustomed to being treated with respect. But when Sarah had her own son, everything changed. This was a question that would surface continually to plague Israel throughout its history. Sarah had no doubt about the matter. She saw Ishmael as a threat to her son, and the old enmity between the two women reappeared — now even more savage than it had been before.
One telling detail is the way that Sarah never speaks directly to Hagar or says her name — never once in the whole story. But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had born to Abraham, playing with her son Isaac. Sarah has power and wealth. Hagar has youth, sexual allure and an unborn child. Sarah drives her out like a stray dog that has overstayed its welcome. We do not know the details of the bitter power struggle between the two women, but we do know that Hagar lost.
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Neither of the women had ever trusted or liked each other, but now Sarah had a murderous hatred for Hagar, and actively sought her death. In a climactic scene, Sarah insisted that Hagar and Ishmael be sent away from the tribe. Abraham was uneasy about expelling Hagar and Ishmael into the heat of the open desert, since they had virtually no chance of survival. He argued against it. He gave Hagar a gift of bread, the food staple, and a skin of water, a symbol of life — not so much for eating and drinking, but as a signal to the tribe that she remained under his protection, despite her expulsion from the tribe.
Alone in the desert, Hagar and Ishmael soon used up their tiny supply of water. Sarah found life travelling the royal courts difficult, remarking that they were full of dull company. Sarah and Queen Anne never made up their differences, although one eyewitness claimed to have heard Anne asking whether the Marlboroughs had reached the shore, leading to rumours that she had called them home herself. The Marlboroughs returned home on the afternoon of Anne's death. The new reign was supported by the Whigs , who were mostly staunch Protestants. King George also had a personal friendship with the Marlboroughs; the Duke of Marlborough had fought with him in the War of the Spanish Succession , and John and Sarah made frequent visits to the Hanoverian court during their effective exile from England.
Sarah was relieved to move back to England. The Duke of Marlborough became one of the king's close advisers, and Sarah moved back into Marlborough House , where she flaunted her eldest granddaughter, Lady Henrietta Godolphin , in the hope of finding a suitable marriage partner. Henrietta eventually married Thomas Pelham-Holles , first Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne , in April , and the rest of Sarah's grandchildren went on to make successful marriages. Sarah's concern for her grandchildren briefly came to a halt, however, when in her husband had two strokes , the second of which left him without the ability to speak.
Sarah spent much of her time with him, accompanying him to Tunbridge Wells and Bath , and he recovered shortly afterwards. Even after his recovery, Sarah opened his correspondence and filtered the letters Marlborough received, lest their contents precipitate another stroke. Sarah's relationship with her children was strained. Although she had a good relationship with her daughter, Anne Spencer , she became estranged from her daughters Henrietta, Elizabeth and Mary.
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Similarly heartbroken when her favourite daughter Anne died in , Sarah kept her favourite cup, a lock of her hair, and adopted the Sunderlands' youngest child, Lady Diana , who would later become her favourite granddaughter. John Churchill died at Windsor in , and Sarah arranged a large funeral for him. Sarah became one of the trustees of the Marlborough estate, and she used her business sense to distribute the family fortune, including the income for her daughter Henrietta. The dowager duchess purchased Wimbledon manor [73] in , and rebuilt the manor house.
Despite this, good relations with the royal family continued, and Sarah was occasionally invited to court by Queen Caroline , who attempted to cultivate her friendship. The Duchess of Marlborough was a capable business manager, unusual in a period when women were excluded from most things outside the management of their household. Her friend Arthur Maynwaring wrote that she was more capable of business than any man. The Canal and Bason which is already don[e] look very fine.
The Duchess of Marlborough fought against anything she thought was undue extravagance. She wrote to the Duke of Somerset, "I have reduced the stables to one third of what was intended by Sir John [Vanbrugh] yet I have room for fourty [ sic ] fine horses. These detailed inspections extended to her smaller land purchases. After buying the Wimbledon estate which she described as "upon clay, an ill sod, very damp and Her persona non grata status at the Walpole-controlled court prevented her from suppressing the rise of the Tories ; Walpole's taxes and peace with Spain were deeply unpopular with ruling class English society, and the Tories were gaining much more support as a result.
Sarah never lost her good looks and, despite failing popularity, received many offers of marriage after the death of her husband, including one from her old enemy, Charles Seymour , the sixth Duke of Somerset. Sarah continued to appeal against court decisions which ruled that funding for Blenheim should come from the Marlboroughs' personal estate, and not the government. This made her unpopular; as a trustee of her family's estate, she could easily have afforded the payments herself.
She was surprised by the grief she felt following the death of her eldest living daughter in Sarah lived to see her enemy Robert Walpole fall in , and in the same year attempted to improve her reputation by approving a biographical publication titled An Account of the Dowager Duchess of Marlborough from her first coming to Court to the year She died at the age of 84, on 18 October , at Marlborough House ; she was buried at Blenheim.
Sarah believed that she had a right to enforce her political advice, whether Anne personally liked it or not, and became angry if she stubbornly refused to take it. Apart from her notorious bad temper, Sarah's main weakness has been described as "an almost pathological inability to admit the validity of anyone else's point of view". Modest and retiring, she promoted the Tory policies of her cousin Robert Harley. During her lifetime, Sarah drafted twenty-six wills , the last of which was only written a few months before her death; and had purchased twenty-seven estates.
Although she left little to the poor and even less to charity, she left her servants annuities far above the average for the time: Much of the money left after Sarah's numerous bequests was inherited by her grandson, John Spencer , with the condition that he could not accept a political office under the government. He also inherited the remainder of Sarah's numerous estates, including Wimbledon. Marlborough House remained empty for 14 years, with the exception of James Stephens, one of her executors, before it became the property of the Dukes of Marlborough upon Stephens's death.
In , it became a royal residence, and passed through members of the British royal family until it became the Commonwealth Secretariat in Today, much of St Albans is named after the Marlboroughs because of Sarah's influence. Sarah died, in the words of Tobias Smollett , "immensely rich and very little regretted, either by her own family or the world in general", [86] but her efforts to continue the Marlborough legacy cannot be ignored. The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough's children who survived childhood married into the most important families in Great Britain: She was played by Susannah York in the comedy Yellowbeard.
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