Perdita

The imaginative Perdita is described in terms of one of the artistic touchstones of the era and Mary's personal favourite [33] -- "she was like one of Guido's saints"

Paley, "Apocalypse Without Millennium" 1989

Perdita is allowed to realize Claire's fantasy of marrying Byron/Raymond, but must suffer his infidelity with the Greek princess Evadne and then commit suicide after her husband's death.

Paley, "Apocalypse Without Millennium" 1989

Besides, he pinned a paper to its mantle upon which the name Perdita was written.

The Children's Portion Various

Our prime festivals were held in Perdita's cottage; nor were we ever weary of talking of the past or dreaming of the future.

I.6 1826

I found this vision of beauty in Perdita's alcove, in earnest conversation with its inmate.

I.4 1826

But in Perdita he possessed all that his heart could desire.

I.8 1826

A figure fairly tall, in a grey riding-habit, stupendously well cut; a face not quite so round as a child's nor so shaped as a woman's, blushing slightly, very calm; crinkly light-brown hair tied back with a black ribbon under a neat hat; and eyes like those eyes of Gainsborough's 'Perdita' -- slow, grey, mesmeric, with long lashes curling up, eyes that draw things to them, still innocent.

Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

Polixenes then reproached his son for daring to contract himself to this low-born maiden, calling Perdita “shepherd’s-brat, sheep-hook, ” and other disrespectful names; and threatening, if ever she suffered his son to see her again, he would put her, and the old shepherd her father, to a cruel death.

The Winter’s Tale 1878

That Raymond should marry Idris was more than ever intolerable; yet my passion, though a giant from its birth, was too strange, wild, and impracticable, for me to feel at once the misery I perceived in Perdita.

I.4 1826

Polixenes then reproached his son for daring to contract himself to this low-born maiden, calling Perdita "shepherd's-brat, sheep-hook," and other disrespectful names; and threatening, if ever she suffered his son to see her again, he would put her, and the old shepherd her father, to

Tales from Shakespeare Mary Lamb 1805