Gentlewoman

• A woman of gentle birth or high social position;
• A woman attending a great lady. This might be a court appointment as the female equivalent to a valet de chambre.
• A woman with good manners and high standards of behaviour.

  At Court

United States Congress

Some uses in literature

• Enitan Bereola II, Gentlewoman: Etiquette for a Lady, from a Gentleman
• Isabella Whitney, The Copy of a Letter, Lately Written in Meter by a Young Gentlewoman: to her Unconstant Lover, ca. 1567 earliest known volume of English language secular poetry published by a woman
• Jane Anger: Her Protection for Women to defend them against the scandalous reports of a late surfeiting Lover... Written by Jane Anger, Gentlewoman at London
• Richard Braithwaite's The English Gentlewoman, followed his The English Gentleman, both being books about acceptable behaviour.
• "Helena, a Gentlewoman", in All's Well That Ends Well
• A Yorkshire Gentlewoman and Her Son by George Chapman
• "Quartilla, gentlewoman to Triphoena", in Holland's Leaguer by Shackerley Marmion
• "Mrs Pleasant, a handsome young Gentlewoman of a good fortune" in The Parson's Wedding by Thomas Killigrew
• Anne Bradstreet, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up into America, by a Gentlewoman in such Parts
• Hannah Woolley, The Gentlewoman's Companion; or, a Guide to the Female Sex
• Eliza Smith, The Compleat Housewife: or, Accomplished Gentlewoman’s Companion
• The Gentlewoman's Magazine
• Arvind Nehra, Letters of an Indian Judge to an English Gentlewoman
• Charles Angell Bradford, Blanche Parry, Queen Elizabeth's Gentlewoman
• Margery Sharp The Foolish Gentlewoman
• Langton, A., A Gentlewoman in Upper Canada
• Mary Hallock Foote, A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West: The Reminiscences of Mary Hallock Foote