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The word spinster came into common use during the early 19th century when the thankless task of spinning cloth had been pushed off to unmarried women as a way to earn their keep in the home (O’Brien, 1973). Contemporary use of the word conjures up a mental image of a childless, frumpy, middle-aged woman who is...
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How a 19th-century spinster serves as a moral compass in today's world. ... To say that one values Austen's moral instruction may produce skepticism because, after all, she was a spinster living in provincial England 200 years ago. ... Austen lived on the cusp of the 18th-century Augustan and 19th-century Romantic ages.
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Too many factors, most of them economic, worked against young ladies in the 19th Century for them to be comfortable or confident in their passive position. ... By the turn of the 20th Century, the image of the Spinster that we have today was firmly ingrained in the minds of the American people...
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www.victoriaspast.com/Spinsterhood/Spinsterhood.html
www.victoriaspast.com/Spinsterhood/Spinsterhood.html
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Blackwell, Elizabeth (first female physician of modern era, 19th century) ; Borden, Lizzie (American murderess, 19th century); Elisabeth I, Queen of England; Germain, Marie-Sophie (18th century French mathematician); ... 21st century spinster...
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Some of the negative connotations of the word spinster evolved in the 19th century, when spinning-houses were used as holding cells. ... A spinster is a woman who remains unmarried beyond the customary marriage age of her community. The term derives from the 14th century ME word spinnestere, meaning a woman who spins (e...
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No ma’am, this is Spinster Nation, and in our land we say, “Yes we can!” with nary a penny out of a spinster’s webby wallet. We are taking a revolutionary 3-fold approach to dating in this difficult economy: It’s one part Speed Dating, one part J-Dating, and one part blind dating.
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www.askaspinster.com/
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Negotiating Femininity and Power in the Early Twentieth Century West: Domestic Ideology and Feminine Style in Jeanette Rankin's Suffrage Rhetoric." Communication Studies 50 ... "The Lady, the Whore, and the Spinster: The Rhetorical Use of Victorian Images of Women." Western Journal of Communication 54 (1990): 82–98.
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"The Best or None!" 19th Century Spinsterhood; Zsuzsa Berend, in a Summer 2000 article in the Journal of Social History, looks at New England women in the 19th century who chose not to marry, instead choosing careers and active lives in social reform movements.
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This entry describes then-current understanding of laws relating to women, including divorce and marriage law, as it stood in 1910. This page emphasizes changes in British law in the 19th century.
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