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Betty! also completes something of a trilogy for Peake, who has previously written plays about two other pioneering real-life women - champion cyclist Beryl Burton and Hull fishwife Lillian Bilocca.

From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2022

If the history of the hoax is an ancient and labyrinthine city, then Young has explored every alleyway, gossiped with every fishwife, drunk in every bar in town.

From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2017

A Canadian waitress who swears like a fishwife goes on holiday to Boracay.

From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2016

In Part 2, we turn to the story of glamorous and inaccessible Mathilde—who, we learn, was born in France, as Aurélie, her mother a fishwife in Nantes, her father a stonemason.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 2, 2015

Once safely on the north bank, I asked a cheerful fishwife the way to The George, where I found Falconer eating his supper—fish, again.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

Alloa-born artist David Allan created drawings of ordinary people going about their daily lives in Edinburgh, including soldiers, coalmen, fishwives, sedan chair porters, firemen and officers of the city guard.

From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2021

In Sutcliffe’s sepia-toned prints, Whitby appears misty, moody and — if you replace the somberly dressed fishwives with tourists — almost identical to today.

From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2015

But that was the Ryan Women: fishwives to the marrow, they were always ready to fight and knew the places that would cut deepest.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2012

Roman fishwives cursed police who gathered them up and arrested bewildered loiterers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Farther on the fishwives were crying the day’s catch, and a boy was beating time on a drum as a shabby old bear danced in a circle for a ring of river runners.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin