Question from Alia - Forms of address with no title
In the Tudor period, how would you address a man or woman without a title but still respected? For a woman, could you only use 'mistress', or 'madam' too?
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I understood it to be 'Goodwife' for a respectable woman
3 comments:
I understood it to be 'Goodwife' for a respectable woman
Wasn't Goodwife or Goody more of a puritan title? Was it used in Tudor England? I really don't know for certain.
You might find this useful:
http://elizabethan.org/compendium/37.html.
(Life in Elizabethan England 37: Forms of Address for Non-Nobles)
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