In the poem he suggests that the name Tatiana was more common for peasants than for well-born women in the early 19th century.
Also, social conventions forbade well-born women from being seen in public; while the plays depicted outside activities.
To all outward appearances, she was no different than any other young, well-born woman of his acquaintance.
Poole was a well-born woman from Shute in East Devon, near Axminster.
Even the wealthy and well-born women sometimes ventured abroad.
Catherine's initial education was similar to other well-born women, but she developed a passion for learning which would continue throughout her life.
Women from the provinces and slaves pierced their left nostrils with rings, but well-born Persian women would not do this.
For a well-born woman, even attended by her maid,such behavior would have been hazardous to her standing in Society.
Do you imagine that you can woo a well-born woman with such witticisms and have her be well disposed towards you?
Like beautiful and well-born women, formalist esthetics seemed to beckon to Greenberg from a higher realm of freedom.