To provide more information, it may have originated from:
Heaven has no rage, like love to hatred turned,
.....Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorned.
William Congreve: The Mourning Bride (1697)
A contribution from the salt mines of cut'n'paste:
1697 Congreve Mourning Bride
Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.
1868 J. G. Saxe Poems
In classic authors we are often warned, There's naught so savage as a `woman scorned'.
1886 M. H. E. Bates Chamber over Gate
You know `Hell hath no fury', etc. If your wife should ever wake up to the true state of the case..I'm afraid she'd be an ugly customer.
1927 W. Johnston Affair in Duplex 9B?
The old idea of `the woman scorned' on which Chilton had been relying this time failed utterly.
1932 W. McFee Harbourmaster
They say hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
1940 G. H. Coxe Glass Triangle
If you really want to know who could have wanted to kill him, you might as well start with me... You've heard that one about hell having no fury like a woman scorned? Well, that was me.
1942 N. Marsh Death & Dancing Footman
He broke out into..merriment calculated..to arouse in Chloris the pangs proper to a woman scorned.
1967 -- Death at Dolphin
She really does bear out the Woman Scorned crack. She is..not all that charitably disposed at any time.
1971 J. RipleyDavis doesn't live here any More
The discarded mistress-the `woman scorned'-motive.
1973 I. Murdoch Black Prince
`Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.' In a way I might have been flattered. |