schoolmistress
Noun
Meaning
A woman who governs and teaches a school; a female school-teacher.
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The Church was the preserver of the remnants of intellectual culture, the sole schoolmistress of the raw peoples. Her clergy long had almost a monopoly of education, and were the secretaries of the nobles, the chancellors and prime ministers of kings.
I believe that the crazy combative patriotism that plainly threatens to destroy civilisation to-day is very largely begotten by the schoolmaster and the schoolmistress in their history lessons. They take the growing mind at a naturally barbaric phase and they inflame and fix its barbarism.
After Shaffer saw her on the stage, he lured Diane Cilento out of semi-retirement to play the town's schoolmistress.
Berg (2004) p. 313. This self-assuredness meant she could be controlling and difficult; her friend Garson Kanin likened her to a schoolmistress, Kanin (1971) p. 54. and she was famously blunt and outspoken.
The former schoolmistress at Roe Head, Miss Wooler, was in Scarborough and she was the only other mourner at Anne's funeral.
His father John was a blacksmith and his mother Gertrude was a schoolmistress.