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Thirty-Nine Years Old - Isa Oliver
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Mrs Manresa 45

He was the very type of all that Mrs. Manresa adored. His hair curled; far from running away, as many chins did, his was firm; the nose straight, if short; the eyes, of course, with that hair, blue; and finally to make the type complete, there was something fierce, untamed, in the expression which incited her, even at forty-five, to furbish up her ancient batteries.

Virginia Woolf  ·  Between the Acts

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Mrs Bird

The Boarding-House

William Trevor

"She was a person of forty-five, who claimed in after years that she had not known until the day before that she was about to bear a child..."

45

Mrs Strap

The Old Boys

William Trevor

"Mrs Strap, Aries, was forty-five, small, breastless and elaborately decorated: costume jewellery, earrings, hair a glitter of gold..."

45

Elizabeth Flanders

Jacob’s Room

Virginia Woolf

"...a widow in her prime. She was half-way between forty and fifty. Years and sorrow between them..."

45

Beatrice Lacy

Rebecca

Daphne du Maurier

"She must have thought about the days that were gone, ever remembered the lanky pig-tailed child that she had been once, so different from woman she had become, forty-five now, vigorous and settled in her ways, another person…"