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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Spinsters"”.
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Wicked widows, crazy spinsters, and competent heroines : the single woman in sentimental fiction
Since the 1970s, a number of critics have given critical attention to sentimental fiction. In 1977 and 1985 respectively, Ann Douglas and Jane Tompkins set the terms for almost all subsequent arguments about antebellum female authors. What critics have not done is given particular attention to the …
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Spinsters, cowboys, and cosmopolites: Short story representations of America in late-Victorian periodicals
"This dissertation examines how short story representations of America published in English periodicals between 1880 and 1900 shaped perceptions of America and American literature. As arbiters of the discursive field provided by Victorian periodicals, English magazine editors and reviewers …
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Imprisonment for Debt and Female Financial Failure in the long Eighteenth Century
… the majority of female prisoners were either spinsters or widows, this did not mean their confinement was the result of anyone other than themselves. We should see female imprisonment as an action of their being held accountable. Finally, Chapter Five examines the quantitative reality of …
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Unclaimed flowers and blossoms protected by Thorns: never-married women in the United States, 1880-1930.
A woman's decision to marry was closely tied to turn of the twentieth century concerns about race, ethnicity, female employment, and class. The number of never-married women in the United States grew between 1880 and 1920 as a result of the new employment opportunities that appeared in the decades …