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* In Katherine Kerr's ''Devvery'' series, Rhodry takes Jill as a mistress—he would have liked to marry her, but could not for political reasons. It's acknowledged that this is common among the nobility due to the proliferation of political marriages; and in many cases the jilted spouse doesn't particularly mind as long as you are tactful and discreet.
* One interpretation of the poem "The Rival" by [[Sylvia Plath]] (in ''[[Ariel]]'') is that the subject is an [[Expy]] of the mistress of Plath's husband.
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* The position is [[Deconstructed]] in ''[[Dune]]'' wherein Paul Atreides considers the woman who is technically his mistress as his true wife, and never consummates his official (and political) marriage with his actual wife.
* Petra Cotes in ''[[One Hundred Years of Solitude]]'', doubling as one of the three [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold|hookers with hearts of gold]].
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