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Bowen was an Anglo-Irish writer who was born into the gentry, and whose mother died when Bowen was thirteen, after which she was brought up by her aunts.
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The New Yorker, New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2026
Created a perception that art collecting and connoisseurship is the exclusive domain of the gentry, the jet set, the Upper East Side and Palm Beach crowd.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 15 Mar. 2026
Without stepping beyond pieces and designs that would be plausible for the post-war period, Brower packed each room with touches that Hedda would’ve chosen to stick it to the gentry lineage she feels cut off from.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 19 Dec. 2025
Some of the gentry dislike her, but the lower orders have a great regard for her.
—Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2025
The annual ball served as the culminating social event of the London Season in British society, during which young women of the gentry were presented before the Queen’s royal court.
—Kristen Tauer, WWD, 27 Dec. 2024
Newsom, for all his highfalutin rhetoric about championing all Californians, just can’t quit the gentry and the insiders who have made his career.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
The generals and the officer corps all belonged to the high aristocracy or the gentry and owed their status to the monarchy.
—Jonathan Steinberg, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2011
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The New Yorker, New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2026
Created a perception that art collecting and connoisseurship is the exclusive domain of the gentry, the jet set, the Upper East Side and Palm Beach crowd.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 15 Mar. 2026
Without stepping beyond pieces and designs that would be plausible for the post-war period, Brower packed each room with touches that Hedda would’ve chosen to stick it to the gentry lineage she feels cut off from.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 19 Dec. 2025
Some of the gentry dislike her, but the lower orders have a great regard for her.
—Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2025
The annual ball served as the culminating social event of the London Season in British society, during which young women of the gentry were presented before the Queen’s royal court.
—Kristen Tauer, WWD, 27 Dec. 2024
Newsom, for all his highfalutin rhetoric about championing all Californians, just can’t quit the gentry and the insiders who have made his career.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
The generals and the officer corps all belonged to the high aristocracy or the gentry and owed their status to the monarchy.
—Jonathan Steinberg, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2011
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“The gentry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20gentry. Accessed 14 May. 2026.
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