Talk:Lady's companion

This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Women's History Mid‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Women's History, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Women's history and related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Women's HistoryWikipedia:WikiProject Women's HistoryTemplate:WikiProject Women's HistoryWomen's History articles Mid This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

1. Most of the article has no supporting sources. 2. In the second decade of the 21st century, ads seeking female travel companions can be found on the Internet. Is it correct to consider these as including lady's companions? If not, is there any information on "the last lady's companion of Britain"?Kdammers (talk) 09:48, 25 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

1. Yes, you can ad some after Googling for referenced scholarly sources on the internet. 2. The term is now archaic and modern equivalents can either have their own article or be given a short summarized section her to say they are modern equivalents. It would be next to impossible to know who was the last in such a common profession and require a lot of original research, and 3. The profession was not unique for Britain but existed in all Western countries (with a title in their own anguage of course), so the article should clerify that, otherwise it will not fullfill the guidelines of global point of veiw. --Aciram (talk) 13:49, 25 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The article lacks a global perspective. The profession of Lady's companion existed in more places than Britain - it is known at least in The Netherlands, France and Sweden, and as far as I understand, in the entire Western World or at least in Western Europe. Now, the article gives the impression that it only excisted in Britain. --Aciram (talk) 18:30, 1 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]