I suppose you didn’t intend your low spirits to appear, but I fancy your pen betrayed you. My Dearest Clare,-Your last letter struck me as being rather sad. For example, The Beverley Recorder (Yorkshire) of 15 th August 1903 published The second epistle of Madge, chapter 13 of a novel titled How’s That? An Anglo-Australian Story, in which one A. Phythian and the Oxford English Dictionary (2 nd edition, 1989) indicate, the English novelist Victor Canning (1911-86) was not, in The Whip Hand (1965), the first user of knight in shining armour in its figurative sense.
It originates in the general romantic conception, found in old tales, fairy-stories and Victorian poetry, of the noble knight wandering on horseback in search of good deeds such as rescuing damsels in distress. Phythian explained:ĭespite its medieval feel, this is a twentieth-century phrase, first recorded in print in Victor Canning’s Whip Hand (1965). In A Concise Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1993), B. The expression knight in shining armour denotes a person regarded as a medieval knight in respect of his chivalrous spirit, especially towards women.
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