rideress

"A rideress is a woman who will over-ride her husband, her neighbourhood, and the whole country if she can, and by dint of long riding, at last, rides a devil from that door down to the bottomless pit."

The Visions of the Sleeping Bard Ellis Wynne 1702

Death, "said Sleep," which brings hither those who have lost money, slanderers, and a rideress or two, who are jealous of the law which demands that a wife should submit herself unto her husband. "

The Visions of the Sleeping Bard Ellis Wynne 1702