Mrses.

The old musty professor once thought our professional schools were safe behind their Anglo-Norman towers; but Mrses. and Misses now carry diplomas testifying to their acquisition of the degrees, M. D., L. B. and D. D.

1888 May 3, “The Girls and the Boys”, in The Helena Independent, volume XXI, number 28, Helena, Mont., page [4], columns 2–3

There are other poems—“Joan of Arc”; “Jephtha’s Daughter”; many “Stanzas” and “Lines,” “Vents to the Heart,” or “Leaves from the Volume of Life,” all written with much pomp of blank verse and exclamation point by Agnes Strickland, Miss Edgarton, Miss Dodd, and other Misses and Mrses. “nameless here forevermore.”

1895, ““Our Own Percival.” [Contributed by Hudson.]”, in Henry A[ugustin] Beers, The Ways of Yale in the Consulship of Plancus, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, pages 185–186

The women are also eligible to sign this petition and by the Mrses. and Misses on the list, it shows that the women and young ladies of Tracy, are heartily in favor of better educational conditions.

1912 March 30, “Tracy: Southern Pacific Is Planning to Get Merchandise to the Small Towns Quicker. Tracy to Be Made a General Transfer Point—Women Signing Petition for Union High School.”, in The Evening Mail, volume LXV, number 43, Stockton, Calif., page 16, column 3

In Rome, in Syracuse, in Athens, in Thebes, more than two or three thousand years ago, there was the bob-haired, painted, perfumed Miss and Mrs. of to-day, and she inspired almost exactly the feelings that our painted and perfumed Misses and Mrses. inspire in the men.

1930, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Do Women Change?”, in Assorted Articles, London: Martin Secker, page 45

If Dr. Knight will spend his vacation on our western coast and witness some of the vagaries, false teaching and some of the wild and reckless conduct of some of the so-called religious movements headed and propagated by the Rev. Misses and Mrses., he would be a stronger believer in Paul’s inspired judgment that women should not become public teachers or preachers in the churches.

1930 April 17, J. N. Bowling, “Let Them Remain in the Pews: A California Friend Takes Issue With Dr. Knight”, in The Word and Way and Central Baptist, volume LXVI, number 42, Kansas City, Mo.: The Western Baptist Publishing Company, page 7, column 3