Pioneeress

A very industrious(? pioneeress dug and sold six dollars worth of gold dust, but whether she was six days or as many weeks at it, I have not been informed;

Her calling is very multifarious—one day, she goes out to nurse; another, to clean; on a third, she is engaged to wash; at one time, she has a house to let; at another, she is the pioneeress who clears the way, and makes all ready for the new incoming-tenant;

I look upon the ship as a second Mayflower, and regard these women as pioneeresses.

And to think, when you saw her mule-faced portrait in this book, that you figured her for just another dull and wagon-weary pioneeress.

Seems she’s been at Cannes, trying to round up backers for her new project, Inferno, a biopic of porn pioneeress Linda Lovelace.

[…]; the Prouvost firm’s centennial booklet may have recognized the role played by hardy pioneeresses in the fortune of the firm, but it nonetheless described their descendants in cloying words: “At all times, the Prouvost enjoyed the priceless happiness of being powerfully assisted by their wives or daughters, models of courage, goodness and dedication … moved by the determination to contribute, with all the tact their heart was capable, their share to the still so necessary work of social betterment.”