You see, the people that are appearing before Congress are professional spinsters.
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"I'm a spinster, aren't I, and spinsters live alone," she reasons. Ugh.
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Women who were once called spinsters eventually started being called old maids.
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Among my favorite passages in "No Stopping Us Now" are descriptions of spinsters.
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Her heroines are not all spinsters; Wilmet Forsyth in "A Glass of Blessings" (1958) is married, contentedly enough.
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" Life described it as a "spinsters' holiday," when the "she-wolves … celebrate Leap Year by running officials out and bachelors in.
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The digital matchmaker released its 27 report card, and it's filled with valuable information for hardened spinsters and desperate millennials alike.
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No longer are unmarried women "spinsters," or "cat ladies," or an aberration: "Independent female adulthood," Traister writes, is the new normal.
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This means that whereas there are more single women than men in big cities like Tokyo, bachelors outnumber spinsters in rural areas.
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Otherwise, they grow up in a world of women, first with their mother and aunts, then at boarding and finishing schools run by spinsters and lesbians.
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When women are judged for their marriageability, doomed to end up penniless spinsters unless they hook a rich bachelor, a conniver like Susan is an inevitable result.
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Why and for whom these people are knitting is an implied question that runs throughout the slim tome, which shatters any stereotype of knitters as lonely spinsters.
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Amateur detectives have been writers, like Jessica in "Murder, She Wrote," or spinsters like Jane Marple, but "Agatha Raisin" grounds its hero in the public relations field.
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"The society still encourages girls to get married in their teenage years, otherwise they will be considered spinsters," said Masruchah of the National Commission on Violence Against Women.
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With its tale of provincial life, gimlet-eyed spinsters and thwarted love — not to mention the discovery of a dead body — it feels almost like a Miss Marple mystery written by Colm Toibin.
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An avalanche of cartoon postcards, which Atkinson likens to "tweets of their day," stereotyped them as ugly spinsters, as brattish children, as geese and cats and men and monsters—anything to undo their femininity and render them acceptable targets.
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Cagen first wrote Quirkyalone—her paean to the single life—in 2003, a time when she says single women were being urged to treat their dating lives like jobs and depictions of lonely spinsters were rife in the media.
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She proudly wears the mantle of "spinster"—"It's the spinsters who made me," she proclaims—and ushers us, sometimes dreamily, other times with searing attention, into a personal narrative about her life amid a mutually supportive "found family" and intimate friends.
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And though Gorey, who never married, refused to be pigeonholed — he told Boston magazine in 21985 that he was "reasonably undersexed" and "neither one thing nor the other" — his stories of spinsters and singletons and waifs are certainly queer in both senses of the word.
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But afterward he was tired; he had a headache and his arms hurt—more so than when he had violently tugged the scab of the petrol cap from the rump of the Maruti—and he stayed up all night on the bed of the spinsters, his head throbbing and the city mocking him with its million nocturnal honks, wondering: What will it be for?
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Founded in Upstate New York in 1978 by Maureen Brady and Judith McDaniel, Spinsters Ink is one of the oldest Lesbian Feminist publishers in the world. It is currently owned by publisher Linda Hill, who purchased the Spinsters Ink in 2005.Press Release: Spinsters Ink's Legacy to Live On, March 1, 2005 quoted Hill also owns Bella Books and Beanpole Books.
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Two spinsters try to earn enough money to join their nephew in Africa.
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Spinsters Ink was founded by Brady and McDaniel and moved to San Francisco in 1982, where it was purchased by Sherry Thomas.Hoshino, Edith S. Feminist Publishing, in International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia editors: Philip G. Altbach & Edith S. Hoshino, 1995, Routledge , p134 The early history of Spinsters Ink is closely tied up with that of another feminist publisher, Aunt Lute Books. Spinsters Ink merged in San Francisco with Aunt Lute Book Company in 1986, to form Spinsters/Aunt Lute. The Aunt Lute Foundation was established as a non profit publishing program in 1990, and the two companies separated again.
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There are some free-standing stones located nearby, although only two align with Spinsters' Rock.
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In 1982, Aunt Lute Book Company was founded by Barb Wieser and Joan Pinkvoss in Iowa.Hoshino, Edith S. Feminist Publishing, in International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia editors: Philip G. Altbach & Edith S. Hoshino, 1995, Routledge , p134 Aunt Lute merged with another feminist publisher, Spinsters Ink in 1986, and the two organizations published jointly for several years in San Francisco under the name Spinsters/Aunt Lute.Press Release: Spinsters Ink’s Legacy to Live On, March 1, 2005 quoted In 1990 the Aunt Lute Foundation was established as a non profit publishing program, and in 1992, Spinsters Ink was purchased by lesbian feminist philanthropist Joan Drury and moved to Minneapolis.Young, Stacey.
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Spinsters is the 1995 debut novel by Pagan Kennedy. It was shortlisted for the first Orange Prize for Fiction in 1996.
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In the romance film Father Is a Bachelor, two spinsters play quoits to determine who gets to marry William Holden's character.
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Instead, a temple or "Death House" for spinsters was built or families take their daughter to a shed, empty house, or outlying buildings to die.
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Historically, invitation to join Spinsters of San Francisco has been granted through rigorous processes. In the organization's early years new members were only accepted when current members left the organization to be married. Today membership remains exclusive and by invitation only. Spinsters of San Francisco holds a membership recruitment period each spring where interested women may attend events designed to educate applicants about the organization.
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During the Middle Ages, lifelong spinsters came from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds, though elite women were less likely to be single than peasants or townswomen.
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The seven celestial maidens are considered as seven nymphs or "Helloi Taret ", who are the daughters of the Sky God Soraren. They are then believed to be spinsters.
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These unpopped kernels are known as "old maids" or "spinsters". An early susceptor popcorn bag design was patented by the American company General Mills in 1981 (US Patent #4,267,420).
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Similar dances, sometimes called Spinsters' Balls, have been organized for adults. The custom of holding Spinsters' Balls has spread outside the U.S., and exists in countries such as Australia. If held during the winter months, the Sadie Hawkins dance may be called the Snow Ball or some other wintry name. In a variation on pure Sadie Hawkins custom, a particular song may be designated a snowball dance by the DJ or master of ceremonies.
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In 1992 Spinsters Ink was purchased by lesbian feminist philanthropist Joan Drury and moved to Minneapolis.Young, Stacey. Changing the Wor(l)d: Discourse, Politics and the Feminist Movement, Routledge, 1996, , p44 In 2001 Spinsters Ink moved to Denver, Colorado under Sharon Silvas, who brought back into print the classic Feminist Utopian novel, The Wanderground by Sally Miller Gearhart.Spinsters Ink The press is currently owned by Linda Hill, and employs Katherine V. Forrest as editorial supervisor.
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205–07 Rothbard vilified women's rights activists, attributing the growth of the welfare state to politically active spinsters "whose busybody inclinations were not fettered by the responsibilities of health and heart". Rothbard argued that the progressive movement, which he regarded as a noxious influence on the United States, was spearheaded by a coalition of Yankee Protestants, Jewish women and "lesbian spinsters".Murray N. Rothbard (August 11, 2006). "Origins of the Welfare State in America". mises.org.
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It contained housing for 12 elderly middle class women, four widows andeight spinsters. Duebrødre Kloster was later merged with two more institutions, Søren Olsens Hospital (founded 1600) and Meyercrones Stiftelse (founded in 1838).
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The seven original members of the Wuaneita Society's predecessor, Seven Independent Spinsters. Of the 45 students in the University's first cohort in 1908, seven were women. These original seven formed a type of sorority, called Seven Independent Spinsters, or S.I.S., with the intention of supporting the women's social and academic needs. In 1909, when it became clear that there would be more than seven members, the group changed its name to the Wuaneita Club, and then to the Wuaneita Society in 1910.
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Spinsters of San Francisco is a historical, social and philanthropic women's organization aimed at cultivating volunteerism in young women and helping the San Francisco, California community through fundraising. Nonprofit by charter, the group consists of approximately 195 college educated, unmarried women who sponsor and raise funds for a designated local charity. The charity is selected by vote of the membership each year. Spinsters of San Francisco was founded in 1929 as a sister organization to the Bachelors of San Francisco.
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The requested Committee of Enquiry was finally held on 16 October 1939, and on 23 January 1940 the Chancellor announced that pensions would be paid to insured spinsters and married women at age 60.
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Banners from all NSPA branches were paraded to the Kingsway Hall. Each branch was cheered and applauded as they entered, with Florence and supporting MP's on the platform. Tea was served, and parading continued four abreast, to another meeting at Hyde Park, singing Come Spinsters, Call attention And show that you're alive, Arise demand your pension When you are fifty-five. There is no earthly reason To wait another day, If you will get together Unitedly and say We Spinsters call attention To show that we're alive.
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Sarah Edwards (October 11, 1881 - January 7, 1965) was a Welsh-born American film and stage actress. She often played dowagers or spinsters in numerous Hollywood movies of the 1930s and 1940s, mostly in minor roles.
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Periyar calls the dowry an evil and exploitative practice depriving tens of thousands of talented and beautiful young women with sound character remaining spinsters without any chance of getting married.Veeramani, K., Periyar on Women's Rights, p. 67.
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Florence joined the South Bradford Liberal Party and eventually became its Secretary. It was while canvassing for the Party that she became aware of the poor living conditions of some spinsters, who were straitened financially and often in poor health. As employees, spinsters made national health insurance contributions, but premature death before the age of 65 meant that many received no benefits in return. Responding to this need, Florence (a spinster herself, her fiance having died in the first world war) organised a first meeting for April 9th, 1935 at the Bradford Mechanics' Institute.
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They dispense good and evil, life and death, to all humankind. They are cognate to the Norns of Norse mythology, the Moirai of Greece, and the Fates of Rome, all descended from the Proto-Indo-European religion's three spinsters of fate.
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Spinsters' Rock () is a Neolithic dolmen near Drewsteignton in Devon. It is situated on Shilstone Farm west of the village. It is near the A382 road. The dolmen consist of three granite supports rising to between surmounted by a capstone measuring .
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Esther Howard (April 4, 1892 - March 8, 1965) was a stage and film character actress who played a wide range of supporting roles, from man-hungry spinsters to amoral criminals, appearing in 108 films in her 23-year screen career.
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Patron's Reception, 2007, Event Chairs and Board Members Along with many invitation only events and various social functions, Spinsters of San Francisco hosts three Charity Parties each year that are open to the public. These events feature entertainment, VIP hosted bars and are located at trendy venues in the city. Photography from the events can be seen in 7x7 Magazine, San Francisco Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Nob Hill Gazette and other leading lifestyle publications in the Bay Area. The largest charity event of the Spinsters year is Patron's Reception, held annually in the spring.
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Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved on 27 August 2007 The contents of the magazine alternated between serious and farcical. In the first issue, "A Letter about Old Maids" suggested that "sisters, spinsters, lay-nuns, &c;" were an essential component of God's "wise design"."Betsy" (1840).
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The local market is known in the area for the quality of its produce. During the 1960s, the male population in Antas far exceeded the female one. Spinsters and widows were brought in from the province of Murcia and duly integrated into the society.
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The war widow was seen as unfairly privileged by the NSPA. Florence cited cases of women who had been married for just one day before being widowed (during the first world war) yet were then financially supported for the rest of their lives, unlike the spinster who had to work to support herself. The NSPA was seen as anti- feminist for claiming that an unfairly high proportion of spinsters' contributions went to subsidise the wives and orphans of male pensioners. The NSPA argued that this subsidy came from the previous contributions of spinsters who had been forced to leave employment in middle age, thereby losing their entitlement to a pension.
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Queen returns to Alice, who also throws her out, to protect her own position and reputation. The next day, after a miserable night in a camp of black homeless people, Queen staggers into a meeting of a black church, where she receives help from a kindly woman, who later takes her to the home of two self-righteous and sanctimonious spinsters, Misses Mandy, and Giffery, who hire Queen as a live-in maid. A few days later Davis, a gardener and a former slave, arrives in the spinsters' backyard in search of work. Queen and Davis start a friendship, which turns into romance and Queen becomes pregnant.
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The spinsters invariably of both married and unmarried women are similar and fit closely below the knee. The married women usually wear a very huge firak called "ganr khat". The unmarried wear simple shalwar and qamees. One can easily differentiate between married and unmarried by this firak.
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Brady has served as the editor of many books, including The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde, Spinsters Ink (1980), and The Words of a Woman Who Breathes Fire: Poetry and Prose by Kitty Tsui, Spinsters Ink (1983). A page from one of Brady's manuscripts was included in "Statements from Lesbian Artists", which accompanied the 1978 exhibition A Lesbian Show. Curated by Harmony Hammond, the show was the first lesbian-identified art exhibition in the United States. Brady has taught writing at Skidmore College, Bard College, and The Resource Center for Accessible Living in Kingston, NY. She currently teaches creative writing at New York University, the New York Writers Workshop and the Peripatetic Writing Workshop.
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Established in 2001, Bella Books acquired the Naiad Press backlist, including the majority of works by Jane Rule and all the works of Karin Kallmaker. Their catalog includes over 300 titles of lesbian romance, lesbian mystery and erotica. Other early publishers include Spinsters Ink (which has been sold a couple of times and now is part of the Bella Books organization), Rising Tide Press, Crossing Press, Onlywomen Press, Kitchen Table Press, and New Victoria. In many cases, these presses were operated by authors who also published with the publication house, such as Barbara Wilson at Seal Press, which became part of the mainstream company Avalon Publishing, and Joan Drury at Spinsters Ink.
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Requirements for membership consideration include the following: Applicants must have lived in the Bay Area for at least one year, be between the ages of 21 and 35, have never been married and must be a four-year college graduate. Annually, Spinsters of San Francisco receives hundreds of applications for consideration.
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Mason's novels include Bethany (Hamish Hamilton, 1981); The Illusionist (Hamish Hamilton, 1983), which was nominated for the 1983 Booker Prize in the UK; The War Against Chaos (Hamish Hamilton, 1988); The Racket (Constable 1990), shortlisted for the Fawcett prize 1990; Angel (Hamish Hamilton, 1994), which was also published with the alternative title Reich Angel; The Yellow Cathedral (Spinsters Ink, 2002); Perfection (Spinsters Ink, 2003); and The Right Hand of the Sun, published by John Murray in September 2008;. Her short stories "Irma" and "Interpretation" have been included in the collections Winter's Tales, volumes 6 and 9, respectively (Constable, 1990 & 1993, ed. Robin Baird-Smith). Mason has taken up a number of fellowships at British academic institutions, such as Leeds, Warwick and Bath Spa Universities.
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David Seed, A Companion To Science Fiction. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. (p. 484) Haldane's 1927 book Motherhood and Its Enemies drew some criticism for its attacks on spinsters and suffragettes for "devaluing motherhood" and causing male-female "sex antagonism." Despite Haldane's feminism, Sheila Jeffreys has called Motherhood and its Enemies "an antifeminist classic".
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Emília Márkus in 1903 Emília Márkus, (married name Pulszky; September 10, 1860 - December 24, 1949), was a Hungarian aristocrat, politician and the most renowned actress of her time in Hungary, known for her roles in a number of Hungarian theatrical and film productions, including Three Spinsters (1936), A táncz (1901) and Az aranyhajú szfinksz (1914).
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The 'Yakshi' was brought to Kaviyoor from Kodunthura, Pathanamthitta by an elder Moothath of the Illam when he married a girl from Kodunthura. The shrine was later handed over to Kaviyoor temple authorities. The concept of 'Yakshi' coalesced into Hinduism from Jainism. The Yakhi is believed to bless spinsters who pray for timely marriage (മംഗല്യപ്രദായിനി).
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Before 1919 an operating theatre block was added on the southern side of the house. Jessie leased the hospital to Florence Inglis, Elizabeth Fraser and Annie Paton, spinsters and nurses, in February 1920. They then purchased the property in June 1927. In 1935 an additional two-storey wing was built next to the operating theatre.
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Perry traps her in the act and Mandy faints. When the police arrive, Perry feels sorry for Mandy and claims she is her mother. The two move in together to an empty stable behind the Cheever house in Flatbush, owned by three morose spinsters. Perry tells the Cheever sisters that Mandy is Eddie's mother, too.
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The London Lesbian Film Festival is an annual film festival in London, Ontario, which presents an annual program of lesbian-interest films."Top 10 women’s events in North America". Daily Xtra, April 13, 2016. The only exclusively lesbian-oriented film festival in North America, the event has been staged by the Reeling Spinsters organization since 1991.
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Berg (2004) p. 203. Hepburn received an Academy Award nomination for the second year running for her work opposite Burt Lancaster in The Rainmaker (1956). Again she played a lonely woman empowered by a love affair, and it became apparent that Hepburn had found a niche in playing "love-starved spinsters" that critics and audiences enjoyed.Berg (2004) p. 204.
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Woverman learns of Reynolds' presence, but claims he is her son Hendrik. She runs a home for spinsters in the area while her husband is institutionalized as mad. Reynolds decides to protect Anita from Zellfritz's amorous advances. An arrangement to meet a contact at the Savoy Café requires Reynolds to ask Anita to cover for him.
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Cox, Jim, Radio Crime Fighters, 2002, p. 18, McFarland, Jefferson, North Carolina, Throughout her career, Moorehead skillfully portrayed puritanical matrons, neurotic spinsters, possessive mothers, and comical secretaries. She played Aggie McDonald in the 1948 film, Johnny Belinda. She played Parthy Hawks, wife of Cap'n Andy and mother of Magnolia, in MGM's hit 1951 remake of Show Boat.
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The witches leave the area only during Easter in order to spook children. These witches have also been humorously referred to be spinsters who will end up there in order to escape from the "old maid" tax. According to the National Land Survey of Finland, there is a total number of 32 Kyöpelinvuori hills in Finland.Kyöpelinvuori Kansalaisen karttapaikka.
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Three elderly spinsters become amateur detectives when someone poisons their beloved cat. The three determine the cat was poisoned by their mean old landlady and with an eye for an eye attitude, they determine to have their revenge. The three plan to murder the landlady, but fate has other ideas and takes a hand in matters.
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As a women's rights activist, she focused on equal educational rights for both boys and girls, and advocated that spinsters should be self- supporting professionals. Karacs in 1850 Countess Blanka Teleki came from an aristocratic family who had an estate in Szatmár County.Teleki Blanka , Sulinet.hu. Retrieved 18 July 2015 She contacted Karacs and invited her to Budapest.
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Married women could not vote, their property interests were subordinate to their husbands, but wealthy widows and single women (spinsters) could. This period of enfranchisement appears to end with incorporation. Women graduates of Oxbridge and, from 1918 seven other universities as the Combined English Universities could vote in both local and national elections, in the constituencies specifically set aside for those institutions.
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Esther (Phyllis Calvert) and her sister Jennifer (Gillian Owen) are spinsters on holiday in a remote country cottage. Things take a dramatic turn when a policeman (Alan White) calls, searching for the body of the former tenant's wife. When a human skeleton is unearthed in a chicken coup, the finger of suspicion points firmly at the previous occupant, Mr. Smith (Thorley Walters).
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Joan Sanderson (24 November 1912 – 24 May 1992) was a British television and stage actress born in St Paul's, Bristol. During her long career, the tall and commanding actress played mostly dowagers, spinsters and matrons, as well as intense Shakespearean roles. Her television work included the sitcoms Please Sir! (1968–72), Fawlty Towers (1979) and Me and My Girl (1984–88).
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Georgia Platts (Vanessa Redgrave) is a former actress and singer. The Nightingale sisters, Heather (Brenda Fricker) and Hazel (Imelda Staunton), are spinsters who moved in after spending years taking care of their mother. Donald Vanston (Joss Ackland) is a recovering alcoholic who enjoys playing piano and used to be a judge. These four residents are driving out others with their eccentric ways.
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Unlike the modern frika(n)del, the historical frikadel (frickedil) is made from minced veal and generally spiced with mace, nutmeg, salt, pepper and optionally orange peel. A version without egg and breadcrumbs was cooked in a veal net. The shape of the frikadel could have been phallic on purpose. The writer P.C. Hooft called 'fricadellen' a recipe for old spinsters.
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Virtually nothing is known about Carlo Manieri. He is believed to have been originally from Taranto in southern Italy. His birth date must probably be placed in the late 1620s or the early 1630s as he already had two daughters in 1675 who were then referred to as 'spinsters'.G. Bocchi and U. Bocchi, Pittori di Natura Morta a Roma, Artisti Italiani 1630-1750 (Viadana, 2005), pp.
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Others supposedly unfairly benefiting from spinsters' 'lost monies' were mothers receiving maternity benefits. In 1944 Florence protested at the unfairness of being required to pay tax which would fund the new family allowance scheme. This sectionalist attitude drew criticism from feminists, the Labour Party and the TUC. These sectionalist and divisive arguments were however encouraged by the individualising ideology of the social insurance system.
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The Mai immediately corrects him reminding him that she was a cellist in the college orchestra and that after he left her to raise their kids alone she was also teaching full-time. Discourse on marriage and it's link to capital is apparent here as the characters talk about how when they lost their husbands they lost everything, referring to their current socio- economic status as spinsters.
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It was bought in the early 1930s by Basil Blake, a member of the art department at Lemville film studios. It was also inhabited by Basil's wife, Dinah Lee an actress. At the other end of Lansham Road, a small lane called Old Pasture Lane broke away from the main street. Nestled in this lane were three Queen Anne or Georgian houses, which belonged to three spinsters.
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She tells him that the major's relative will complete his mission in Eselmunder at a submarine fleet there. At the agent's house several Gestapo officers have been arrested the agent, Reynolds escapes and goes back to Anita's house. Anita says the major drops propaganda leaflets nightly over England. The spinsters offer their help in transcribing the location of the submarine site onto the pamphlets.
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Throughout history, homosexual relationships have blossomed between women. While lesbianism was not a definitive characteristic of lifelong spinsters, there were women who fit into this category. Li livres de jostice et de plet(z) ("The Book of Justice and of Pleas") is an Old French legal treatise compiled in 1260. It is known as one of the first books on record that equates lesbianism with male homosexuality.
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She was a member of the Junior League and the Spinsters of San Francisco. Borel made her own debut before 200 guests at the Town and Country Club in San Francisco in January 1934. An article in the San Francisco Examiner described her dress—a white moss crepe gown with a red velvet cape, white velvet gloves, and white satin shoes—and the party in detail.
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Ardrossan, 2005 In March 1934, resub 2 of subs 47 and 48 was transferred to sisters Mary and Maud Molloy (spinsters) of Bowen Terrace, New Farm. In September 1936, the adjacent allotment, resub 1 of sub 47, was transferred to Mary and Maud Molloy from Ernest William Mazlin. Ardrossan was designed by prominent Brisbane architects Chambers and Ford in 1934. The contractor was F Lee of Albion, and tender price was .
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" This included blacks, spinsters, and widows. (Married women could not own property under the common law.) It had been held that this was an accident of hasty drafting: the British were at Staten Island when the constitution was proclaimed. The Constitution declares itself temporary, and it was to be void if there was reconciliation with Great Britain.Klinghoffer and Elkis. "The Petticoat Electors: Women’s Suffrage in New Jersey, 1776–1807.
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She had arranged for posters and leaflets to be printed, and advertisements to be placed in the Bradford Telegraph & Argus. Interested friends from the Liberal Party were to join Florence on the platform. According to her niece's memoir Florence hoped for about 100 people to attend, but 600 turned out; 300 members were enrolled on the night, and officers elected. The National Spinsters' Pension Association (NSPA) was founded.
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Miss Roach becomes romantically involved with one of them, Lieutenant Pike, beginning a relationship centred on the local pub and kissing on a bench. This relationship becomes disrupted by the arrival of Miss Roach's German friend Vicki Kugelmann, who soon becomes Miss Roach's love rival. Miss Kugelmann moves into the Rosamund Tea Rooms, charms Mr Thwaites and there soon begins a sort emotional struggle between the two spinsters.
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"Orson Scott Card Draws Gay Protest", 'Science Fiction Chronicles 13(6), March 1992. Some lesbian science fiction is targeted specifically to a lesbian audience, rather than science fiction fans, and published by small feminist or lesbian fiction presses such as Bella Books, Bold Strokes Books, Ylva Publishing, Regal Crest Enterprises, Bedazzled Ink, Intaglio Publications, and Spinsters Ink. A notable author writing science fiction published by lesbian presses is Katherine V. Forrest.
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Spinsters Abroad, by Dea Birkett. The History Press 2004 On 19 August 1902 Christie died at his home at 19 Buckingham Terrace, Edinburgh (age 78). He is buried in Muckhart Churchyard, against the east gable of the church. At the time of his death his will demonstrated that, apart from the huge estates inherited from his father, he had acquired further estates in Glenfarg, Carnbo and other lands in Perthshire.
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It was unlikely that the illiterate sisters would have been able to acquire arsenic through the usual method of visiting a chemist, a route more open to doctors than spinsters. Eventually it was discovered that common flypaper at the time contained arsenic, and that by soaking the flypaper in water, a solution substantially identical – including the same adulterants – to that found in a bottle at the Higgins residence could be obtained.
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That night, as Anita entertains Zellfritz in her room, the spinsters alter the pamphlets, but are interrupted by Hendrik (Hans Conried), Anita's real husband, at the door. Hendrik is on the run and asks Reynolds for help in evading the Nazis. Reynolds gives Hendrik his forged identification card. After the pamphlets are safely stuffed back into the major's bag, Reynolds bursts into Anita's room, claiming that the Gestapo are after him.
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The book became recognised as the standard account of Dartmoor. It presents and compares the views of earlier antiquarians. For example, it discusses the Drewsteignton cromlech (Spinsters' Rock) in some detail and gives views on the possibility that it was a Druid monument expressed by writers including Borlase, Chapple and Polwhele. Rowe thought the cromlech (dolmen) was primarily a sepulchre, but thought it was possibly also an altar where the Druids made sacrifices.
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Born in Portland, Oregon, Prickett often portrayed maids, secretaries, busybodies, spinsters, and nosy neighbors. She made 36 appearances on the television series Hazel starring Shirley Booth. On that sitcom she was cast in the recurring role of Rosie, a maid and friend of the title character. One of Prickett's notable film portrayals is as a maid named Elsie at the Plaza Hotel in New York City in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest in 1959.
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This led to laughable "courtships" with well-bred spinsters, including one who herself had lost her fortune to gambling. Viscount Bolingbroke found himself overshadowed by his wife even after their marriage ended. Bolingbroke was not especially popular outside of a certain set while Lady Diana's circle included the eccentric and intelligent Dr Samuel Johnson and the fashionable political hostess Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. He died on 5 May 1787, aged 54.
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Hill and her husband Christopher co-authored a paper entitled Catherine Macaulay and the Seventeenth Century in 1967 about the early female historian, Catherine Macaulay. Hill published in 1992 a full book on Macaulay, entitled The Republican Virago. Hill's other works included Eighteenth Century Women: an Anthology (1984); Women, Work and Sexual Politics in Eighteenth- Century England (1989); Servants: English Domestics in the Eighteenth Century (1996), and Women Alone: Spinsters in England, 1660-1850 (2001).
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Sexual Practice/Textual Theory: Lesbian Cultural Criticism. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1993 and a contributed chapter to They Wrote the Book: Thirteen Women Mystery Writers Tell All.Windrath, Helen (editor), They Wrote the Book: Thirteen Women Mystery Writers Tell All, 2000 Spinsters Ink In addition to writing, Dreher was a clinical psychologist in private practice, graduating first from Wellesley College, then gaining a Ph.D. in psychology from Purdue University.Pollack, Sandra and Denise D. Knight (Editors).
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The film tells the story of two young female university students, Key and Citra, who share a house in a plush Jakarta suburb. Due to difficulties in paying their rent, their landlady forces two new male tenants on them, Nesta and Aldi. Key and Citra, despite their beauty, are for some unexplained reason very unlucky in love and fear that they will end up as spinsters. They immediately fall for their handsome housemates.
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Zellfritz thinking he is helping Anita's son, agrees to help him escape, but first he has a mission at the airport. Reynolds is arrested for desecrating a poster of Hitler. At the court, the spinsters set off an air raid alarm and, in the chaos, Reynolds spies the major's car. After knocking Zellfritz unconscious, Reynolds puts on the major's uniform and speeds away to a waiting aircraft with the pamphlets in hand.
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"Toronto Daily Star, 2 December 1939 (p. 13) Robert Barnard: "Archetypal Mayhem Parva story, with all the best ingredients: Cranford-style village with 'about six women to every man'; doctors, lawyers, retired colonels and antique dealers; suspicions of black magic; and, as optional extra ingredient, a memorably awful press lord. And of course a generous allowance of sharp old spinsters. Shorter than most on detection, perhaps because the detection is, until the end, basically amateur.
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In 1833 he joined a freemason's lodge in Liverpool. He was the first Mayor of Liverpool under the age of forty, and as he got older his politics moved to the left, as with his youngest brother William. Robertson was a large, slightly depressive man-mountain of 20 stones. He had a large family of children who were all spinsters and bachelors, and his home life was entirely dependent on his wife's talent for housekeeping.
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Peppe earns the offer of a tryst with the maid the next time the ladies leave. The rest of the group pressures him to accept so they can stage the burglary, but she unexpectedly quits her job in a huff and does not know if the spinsters will make their next scheduled departure. Meanwhile, Cosimo is released from prison. He had insisted on a substantial portion of the loot as the plan's mastermind but was rebuffed.
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Between 1906 and 1950 she had 17 Broadway appearances, in 1919 she appeared in the original Hitchy- Koo. Later in her career she became a film actress and appeared in about 20 films, mostly in minor supporting roles. In Hollywood, Kemble-Cooper portrayed mostly aristocrats, spinsters and servants. She is perhaps best-remembered for her short appearance as Bonnie Blue Butler's nurse in London in Gone with the Wind, the only non-American character in the film.
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Pg. 227Coontz, 2005. Pg. 129 To the west of the Hajnal line, about half of all women aged 15 to 50 years of age were married at any given time while the other half were widows or spinsters; to the east of the line, about seventy percent of women in that age bracket were married at any given time while the other thirty percent were widows or nuns.Kertzer 2001; 224–225 The marriage records of Western and Eastern Europe in the early 20th century illustrate this pattern vividly; west of the Hajnal line, only 25% of women aged 20–24 were married while to the east of the line, over 75% of women in this age group were married and less than five percent of women remained unmarried. Outside of Europe, women could be married even earlier and even fewer would remain celibate; in Korea, practically every woman 50 years of age had been married and spinsters were extremely rare, compared to 10–25% of women in western Europe age 50 who had never married.
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The taste and interests of these three spinsters (Margaret, Mary and Elsie) reflected in the house and its furnishings. Much of the chip work woodcarving and some of the tapestry are their work. The pictures and ornaments reflect their taste as much as the conventional style of the period. Their busy, independent and productive lives as the ladies of Saumarez, and their presence ensured that it remained a focal point for the next generation of the family - Frank and Maggie's grandchildren.
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Another recurring sketch, House of Budgell, was essentially an ongoing soap opera set in a boarding house. Wake of the Week focused on the Furlong sisters, a pair of elderly spinsters who regularly crashed funeral wakes, while The Byrd Family focused on a family of hardened criminals. Another of the show's most famous sketches parodied Canadian literary icon Anne of Green Gables; instead of Prince Edward Island, Anne lived in a dreary Newfoundland fishing outport called Green Gut."Revisiting CODCO".
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From 1912 to 1977, Iona/Wootton operated as a private hospital, variously known as Wootton Private Hospital (1912-1949), Winchester Private Hospital (1949-1968), Hughlings Private Hospital (1968-1977). The Taylors sold the property in December 1912 to Eliza Hyem, wife of Alexander Hyem. Mrs Hyem leased the site to Jessie Robertson, Elizabeth Robertson and Annie Ellie McAndrew, spinsters, who converted the house to "Wootten Private Hospital", a psychiatric facility. Jessie Robertson became the owner of the property in 1918.
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Madeira wine becoming famous. Both Islands established Chambers of Commerce as the merchant families expanded and grew in wealth. Tupper, Priaulx, Le Marchant and De Jersey from Guernsey and Ste Croix, Robin, Janvrin and Hemery from Jersey, often intermarrying to avoid rivalry. Part ownership of ships show there were 1,238 people were owners of shares in the 19th Century including 280 mariners and 97 in ship related trades, but also included 55 farmers, 34 widows, 29 spinsters and 25 gentlemen.
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The name of the village is recorded in the Domesday Book as Maneshale. According to records from November 1824, numerous trades and crafts were carried out in the village: blacksmith, wheelwright, joiners, cordwainer, gamekeeper, bricklayer, weaver, tailor, carrier, victualler, laundry woman and many domestic servants. There was also a shopkeeper, butcher, two school mistresses and a school master, farmers and farm workers, paupers and spinsters. The current village church, St Bartholomew's Church, was built on the site of an earlier place of worship between 1702 and 1704.
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A fish Kabiraji on a plaintain leaf plate served with Kasundi Originally kasundi-making was the prerogative of the Brahmin caste and relished by the elites. Later respected families were allowed to make kasundi following auspicious rituals while maintaining a high level or hygiene and purity. It was mostly made by women who were considered appropriate, as widows, spinsters and menstruating women were barred from taking any part. Those who cleaned, husked and prepared the kasundi were not allowed to taste any bitter or sour food.
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After commissioning renovation work, the council reopened the theatre as 'Mansfield Civic Hall' with the first performance in the 'new' theatre being "School for Spinsters" by Chesterfield Repertory Company. In 1963, nearly all of the foyer and façade were rebuilt to give the theatre a new look. In 1968, a public competition offered a prize to rename the theatre. Many suggestions were made, but it was decided that the 'Civic Theatre' was the most appropriate, although this later changed to the 'Palace Theatre', the building's original name.
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The Giffard family, who were a Catholic Recusant family, used their house as a home for spinsters or widowed sisters and daughters, who cared for priests and monks and travelling Catholics. During the aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot two Catholics were executed in High Green, Wolverhampton (now known as Queen Square). The church does have a Recusant Chalice from the English Civil War which is still used at Mass.Tony Burdon, The Roman Catholic Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul from Scribd, (2013) 3-4.
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The rider was that spinsters also needed protection from a rainy day. The last and biggest rally was held in London in 1939, attracting 3,000 people. Resolutions at an overflowing Kingsway Hall were proposed to the Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Minister of Health. After a final meeting in Hyde Park, Florence and her sister Annie, also a worker for the campaign, went by car to Downing Street and succeeded in handing in the Resolutions, cheered on by hundreds of supporters who had marched from Hyde Park.
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The novel details the lives of two sisters, Belinda and Harriet Bede, both spinsters in their fifties. University-educated Belinda is in love with the local Archdeacon, with whom she studied English poetry many years ago, but who is now married. Harriet, her more attractive sister, is constantly pursued by an Italian count, but she is more interested in the young curates who come to work in the village. During the course of the novel, both Belinda and Harriet meet various men who may be a potential love match.
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Little Women repeatedly reinforced the importance of "individuality" and "female vocation". Little Women had "continued relevance of its subject" and "its longevity points as well to surprising continuities in gender norms from the 1860s at least through the 1960s." Those interested in domestic reform could look to the pages of Little Women to see how a "democratic household" would operate. While "Alcott never questioned the value of domesticity", she challenged the social constructs that made spinsters obscure and fringe members of society solely because they were not married.
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Set in New Orleans following the Great Depression, the play focuses on the Berniers sisters, two middle-aged spinsters who have sacrificed their own ambitions to look after their ne'er-do-well younger brother Julian, whose grandiose dreams repeatedly lead to financial disasters. When he unexpectedly returns home accompanied by his emotionally unstable, childlike young bride Lily, her aloof, aristocratic mother Albertine, and an unexplained large sum of money, Carrie and Anna suddenly find that the position of power they have always held has become unbalanced, leaving their lives in chaos.
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This was too much for the general public of 1837 and caused many harsh attacks on their womanhood; one line of thought suggested that they were both just poor "spinsters" displaying themselves in order to find any man who would be willing to take one. In 1838, Angelina married Theodore Weld, a leading abolitionist who had been a severe critic of their inclusion of women's rights into the abolition movement. She retired to the background of the movement while being a wife and mother, though not immediately. Sarah completely ceased to speak publicly.
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She found an advocate in John Stuart Mill but he believed that all women should be given the vote. Goldsmid argued against this believing that it was more realistic to ask that the vote be given only to spinsters and widows. Mill proceeded with his more ambitious proposal and the cause was lost. At this point Goldsmid realised that she and Emily Davies should ignore the campaign to gain votes for women and concentrate on the more achievable goal of gaining the right of women to gain university degrees.
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Queen first seeks an abortion, then decides to keep the child; She confronts Davis, who invites her to meet him at the railway station, presumably to head north. Queen waits at the station well into the evening, but Davis fails to appear, so she dejectedly returns to the old maids. Miss Mandy labels her as a wicked, naughty girl and a fallen sinner, but she and Miss Giffery allow her to remain. In due time the two spinsters, acting as midwives, attend the birth of a healthy boy.
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When Strang is 12, he and his family relocate to apartheid-era South Africa, where he is repeatedly molested by his uncle. After his father is jailed for the violent assault of a taxi driver and his uncle is killed in a terrorist bombing, the Strangs are forced to return to Scotland, a mere 18 months after they left. Strang grows into a violent, misogynistic thug. He maintains a full-time job as a systems analyst for the fictional investment group, "Scottish Spinsters" (a reference to Scottish Widows).
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The story starts when Soloman (Dileep) and his sister travel to Kannadahalli, a village in Karnataka to meet two retired teachers. He reaches the house on top of a hill-"Swargam" where he finds two old women who live alone with a cook and a home nurse to look after them. Anna (Sharada) and Alice (Bharati) are sisters who are spinsters and they own the huge estate. The home nurse, Sophiya (Navya Nair), cook (Sukumari), cook's son (Cochin Haneefa) and the priest (Nedumudi Venu) are the only people close to them.
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She was vivacious and nicknamed "y Deryn" for her lovely singing voice, while Wilkes was heavy and serious, a contrast that was too marked to make for harmony.Isabel R C Stewart Dynamic Paget Wilkes of Japan (1957) Paget Wilkes and his elder brother Lewis were initially taught at home in an environment of strict simplicity and discipline. Few pleasures were permitted, and little variety came into their lives. Their mother died when Paget was thirteen and following the remarriage of his father in 1886, the family home became a centre for highly religious spinsters.
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He raised is children in this house, which was passed to his daughter Carol when she married Edwin Eastman. The Jewett homestead next door was given to Sarah and her sister Mary, both spinsters who died without issue. and Theodore Jewett Eastman, the son of Carol and Edwin Eastman, donated both houses to the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA), now Historic New England (HNE). The house was adapted for use as the South Berwick Public Library in the 1970s, and was sold by SPNEA in 1984 to a local non-profit.
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In the Afterword to the collection, Louis de Bernières addresses the nation. He looks back wistfully to a time when "Villages were proper communities", with pubs and shops and a rectory "with a proper rector in it". The stories in Notwithstanding, he explains, with just a hint of a huff, are a celebration of the "quirky people" he remembers from his childhood in Surrey: "the belligerent spinsters, the naked generals, the fudge-makers, the people who talked to spiders".Ian Sansom on a cosy collection of short stories, The Guardian, 24th Oct 2009.
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San Francisco: Spinsters Ink. The sexual frequency between lesbian couples are reported as less frequent in comparison to gay male, heterosexual, married and unmarried couples. To support this notion, a study looked at 1,500 lesbian women who were in a relationship where 78% were initially uninvolved in sexual activities. Blumstein and Schwartz reported in ‘American Couples’ that in a sample of lesbian women in a relationship, half of the lesbian sample had low levels of sexual contact and stated that they were dissatisfied with their sexuality suggesting low sexual desire, therefore low SDD.
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Crewel is a 2012 young adult dystopian fantasy novel by Gennifer Albin. The book is Albin's debut novel and is the first entry in her Crewel World trilogy. Crewel was released on October 16, 2012 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and follows a young girl in a dystopian society that is pulled from her family due to her ability as a Spinster to manipulate the world via weaving. Albin stated that she came up with the idea of using the term "Spinsters" while comparing the term for old maids with that of the usage of the term to describe someone who spins wool.
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Cover of The Lowell Offering, Series 1, Number 1 (1840) In October 1840, the Reverend Abel Charles Thomas of the First Universalist Church organized a monthly publication by and for the Lowell girls. As the magazine grew in popularity, women contributed poems, ballads, essays, and fiction – often using their characters to report on conditions and situations in their lives. The "Offering"s contents were by turns serious and farcical. In a letter in the first issue, "A Letter about Old Maids", the author suggested that "sisters, spinsters, lay-nuns, & c" were an essential component of God's "wise design".
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Between 1717 and 1721 George built the mill, beside the River Derwent to the south of Cotchett's Mill to house machines for "doubling" or twisting silk into thread. John Lombe's idea of mill was inspired by contemporary smaller and less effective mills he studied during the period in which he worked in Italy: traditionally the spinning wheel was used for producing small quantities of silk thread at the homes of local spinsters, the new machines were capable of producing far greater quantities of silk and provided serious competition for the Italians. The machines required large buildings and a power source.
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Tiberio steals a movie camera with a telephoto lens from a flea market to film the safe's combination, but without success. Since none involved have the skill to crack the safe, they enlist the help of genteel local safecracker Dante (Totò), who is cautious not to violate his parole but supplies tools and gives them a brief primer. The gang discover the vacant apartment is now occupied by two spinsters and their young, attractive maid Nicoletta (Carla Gravina). Ladies' man Peppe learns from Nicoletta that the two women leave the apartment once a week, from Thursday evening till Friday morning.
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In December the same year, spinsters showered Sir Kingsley Wood, the Minister of Health, with 12,000 Christmas cards bearing the message "Thinking of you this Christmastide and hoping you will be thinking of us". From 1938 a monthly journal The Spinster was circulated to members. Increasing support from MPs led to a deputation from the House of Commons to Kingsley Wood, asking for an enquiry. It was refused on grounds of expense and the likelihood of encouraging claims from other groups. William Leach MP put forward a Private Member's Bill in early 1938, again proposing an enquiry.
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Their collaboration inspired many, including lesbian-feminist blues/R&B; singer Nedra Johnson, whose song "Where Will You Be?" has become something of a feminist anthem in the USA. Audre Lorde and Pat Parker shared common themes within poetry they wrote as well. Audre Lorde's piece "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action" Lorde, Audre, "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action", Paper delivered at the Modern Language Association's "Lesbian and Literature Panel," Chicago, Illinois, December 28, 1977. First published in Sinister Wisdom 6 (1978), and The Cancer Journals (Spinsters' Ink, San Francisco, 1980).
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Crostwight, Norfolk online at nationalarchives.gov.uk (accessed 23 March 2008): Folio 248r, Little Domesday Book (1086) At the time of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, the area of North Walsham was "the cradle, the supreme fortress, and the tomb of the Norfolk rebels", generating surveys of households, and Crostwight is one of the few places for which complete records survive. Its heads of households were found to consist of nine cultivators, three weavers, two spinsters, one dyer and one fuller.Hilton, Rodney Howard, Bond Men Made Free: Medieval Peasant Movements and the English Rising of 1381 (1973, new edition by Routledge, 2003, ) pp.
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Umukabia's main appellation is Ojim Ukwu Nnu Egbe, contingent on the ability of Umukabia black smiths of the days of yore to produce 400 musket guns in short order. With this ability, Ukabia warriors were able to parry and route any aggression by neighboring villages, who dared to challenge her. Umukabia is known for its culture and tradition including music and dance among which are Brass Band, Kokoma-I stand by, Igborokiti, Onye oria agba, and others. Indeed, a lot of fecund spinsters who attended ceremonies in Umukabia refused to return and subsequently eloped with young men in the village.
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She may have been one of the more successful moneylenders, but she is by no means an extraordinarily unique woman because there were other spinsters who enjoyed a large social group as well as benefited from moneylending businesses of their own. For instance, Hester Pinney ran a moneylending business, invested and bought bonds and shares; she also was involved in her family's lace business. She like Joyce and numerous other single women made her wealth off of lending money and profiting from the interest. Women who were moneylenders like Joyce often had legacies, which they could use to invest.
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The main incident described in the song took place in the early hours of February 9, 1963, at the white tie Spinsters' Ball at the Emerson Hotel in Baltimore. Using a toy cane, Zantzinger drunkenly assaulted at least three of the Emerson Hotel workers: a bellboy, a waitress, and — at about 1:30 in the morning of the 9th — Carroll, a 51-year-old barmaid. Carroll "had borne 10 children" (at least according to the song) and was president of a black social club.Douglas Martin, "W.D. Zantzinger, Subject of Dylan Song, Dies at 69", The New York Times, January 9, 2009.
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Hepburn challenged herself in the latter half of her life, as she tackled Shakespearean stage productions and a range of literary roles. She found a niche playing middle-aged spinsters, such as in The African Queen (1951), which landed her another Academy Award nomination. Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) was another commercial and critical success and landed her another Oscar nomination. Hepburn earned three more Oscars for her work in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968), and On Golden Pond (1981), co-starring Henry Fonda, who won his only Academy Award for the movie.
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The tug-of-war over the baby is uncomfortably melodramatic, and the whole closing sequence of the movie seems written, not lived. There are some good things, especially Mirren's widow, tasting passion and love for the first time, and Davis' sister, a prototype for all those dreadnought British spinsters for whom false pride is a virtue, not a sin."Chicago Sun-Times review Rita Kempley of The Washington Post thought Sturridge "seems less like a driven director than an impersonal subtitler. He takes no liberties with the material; he merely translates the story from page to screen.
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Nor does it help verisimilitude that a bawling young female gawk should become an elegant beauty in less than a day." Maurice Richardson in The Observer wrote: "An atmosphere of perpetual, after-breakfast well-being; sherry parties in a country town where nobody is quite what he seems; difficult slouching daughters with carefully concealed coltish charm; crazy spinsters, of course; and adulterous solicitors. Agatha Christie is at it again, lifting the lid off delphiniums and weaving the scarlet warp all over the pastel pouffe." And he concluded, "Probably you will call Mrs Christie's double bluff, but this will only increase your pleasure.
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James Vernon, later Secretary of State for War, his son James, Samuel Bray, Justice John Chamberlayne (an S.P.C.K. founder), Dr. George Smallridge, Dean of Christchurch and later Bishop of Bristol, Dr. John Sharp, Dean of Christ Church and Archbishop of York, Lady Jane Hyde and the orator and sermons author Robert South. The first staff of the school consisted of the Headmaster Mr. Ashenden and his wife, two spinsters, Mrs. Gotobed and Goody Corbet, two nurses and Israel Thomas. By May 1706, the school received Queen Anne's Charter, an act of incorporation which allowed it to formally hold houses, land, grant leases, etc.
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In 1959 Salas published her first work, Nosotras, las solteras, dedicated to women who decided not to marry. Her biographer explains that she wanted to dignify this personal option and keep it away from "the rancid spinsters that appeared in many jokes." In 1960 she co-founded the Seminar on Women's Sociological Studies, promoted by María Laffitte, a pioneering gender and equality studies group in Spain that served as a bridge between moderate feminism of Christian Democrat circles and that of more uncompromising feminist groups. Pope Pius XII encouraged her in her commitment to women's rights.
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Despite the girl being found, Poirot speaks with Detective Inspector Hearn, who has been dealing with the case and is no nearer to solving the mystery of how the girl disappeared. The only other people in the carriage seemed clear of suspicion – two middle-aged spinsters, two French commercial travellers from Lyon, a young man called James Elliot and his flashy wife, and an American lady about whom very little is known. He is able to confirm that Winnie's shoes were found by the rail line which confirms Poirot's theory. Poirot goes to France and visits Miss Pope's establishment at Neuilly.
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Pym published her novels between 1950 and 1980, with many of them exploring the lives of spinsters, Anglican priests, and anthropologists. Especially in her early novels, which take place shortly after World War II when rationing was still in effect, Pym's characters are often noted for their simple meals. Food is often used in Pym's novels as a marker of class or social position, and many of Pym's characters face culinary disasters in her novels.LitHub, accessed 26 April 2020 In Some Tame Gazelle, the protagonist spinster sisters fret over whether to serve cauliflower cheese to the new vicar.
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When high-powered Manhattan lawyer Phyllis Curott began exploring witchcraft in a women's group in the 1970s,report on the book on Rambles.net, retrieved November 29, 2009 she discovered a spiritual movement that defied all stereotypes. Encountering neither Satanic rites nor eccentric spinsters, she came to know a clandestine religion of the Goddess that had been forced into hiding over the course of history. The Book of Shadows chronicles Curott's remarkable initiation into Wicca, her ascent to the position of Wiccan high priestess, and her efforts to reconcile her newfound spirituality with her struggles as a woman rising through the ranks of the corporate world.
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The Kindergarten Union made a room in its offices available for one afternoon a week, where a nurse would weigh babies and Mayo and Stirling would give advice. At the first annual meeting of the School a prominent medical doctor criticised the organisation for thinking that spinsters could teach mothers, who were guided by the "mother instinct" (both Mayo and Stirling were childless). In spite of this, the organisation flourished, and in 1911 a cottage in Wright Street was purchased and became the headquarters of the School. In 1927, the organisation became the Mothers' and Babies' Health Association (MBHA), and by 1932, it had branches throughout South Australia.
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She finally accepts his proposal in the penultimate scene in Death in a White Tie (1938). Troy is a famous painter, particularly of portraits, and features in many later novels either in person or in the letters Alleyn writes to her. According to one of a series of letters in Overture to Death (1939), their marriage was planned for April the following year. The actual event takes place “off stage,” as does the birth of their son, also named Roderick but generally called Ricky; Ricky plays major roles as a child in Spinsters in Jeopardy (1954) and as a young adult in Last Ditch (1977).
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Spelvin was 36 when she made the film. The Devil in Miss Jones was one of her first acting appearances following a career as a chorus girl on Broadway where she was featured in productions such as Cabaret, Guys and Dolls, Sweet Charity, and The Pajama Game.Georgina Spelvin: The Devil, Miss Jones, and the New York Years, The Rialto Report, May 19, 2013 Her role in The Devil In Miss Jones was typical of her career, as she often played celibate spinsters who have a sexual awakening, then become sex fiends (e.g. Sleepyhead). She also meets a tragic end in several of her other films.
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Tibby, the wife of Samuel Sweetland (Jameson Thomas) dies, and shortly afterwards his daughter marries and leaves home, leaving him on his own with his two servants. His wife had told him that he should remarry after her death, so he pursues some local spinsters who were at his daughter's wedding after he and his housekeeper Minta (Lillian Hall-Davis) make out a list of possibilities. First is Widow Louisa Windeatt, but Sweetland is shocked and mad when she rejects his advances and says she is too independent for him. Next, he attempts to court Thirza Tapper, a nervous wreck who almost collapses when Sweetland proposes to her.
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Elinor shared great- grandparents with Beatrix Potter who had given Elinor her own hand-drawn watercolour Christmas cards. Both Elinor and her sister died as spinsters. Two of Olive Middleton's uncles were Lord Mayors of Leeds: Hugh Lupton and Sir Charles Lupton who was Deputy Lieutenant of Yorkshire County (West Riding) when Princess Mary's father-in-law, Henry Lascelles, 5th Earl of Harewood, was his Lord Lieutenant. In 2018, Olive Middleton's great-granddaughter, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, stated that her patronage of the Nursing Now campaign meant a lot to her personally as both her great-grandmother, Olive Middleton, and grandmother, Valerie Middleton, were volunteer nurses.
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Miss Boston is friends with many of the elderly spinsters in the Whitby community. The widowed Mrs Prudence Joyster, whose late husband was in the army; the batty, cat-loving Miss Matilda Droon, Miss Edith Whethers the postmistress, and the wealthy and grossly obese Dora Banbury-Scott, twice the widow who refuses to grow old gracefully. Ben and Jennet settle into Whitby and Ben encounters the "Fisher Folk", or the "Aufwader" as they call themselves, a reclusive and mysterious tribe of humanoid dwarf-like beings who are unseen by all except those with the sixth sense. Ben meets Nelda Shrimp, the youngest of the diminishing tribe and her aunt, Hesper Gull.
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For example, Lockhart, having married the innocent young Jessica, and moving to a suburban crescent of large houses (which she owns but cannot sell due to sitting tenancies), decides that the only way to get rid of the neighbouring tenants is to create absolute mayhem in the neighbourhood. His methods include causing marital misunderstandings, drugging dogs, reversing the flow of sewage, sending sexual toys to old spinsters and adding abrasive chemicals to the inside of a condom. This in turn induces scenes such as the desperate cheese-grating of male genitalia, a full-scale battle between the police and the army, and a high-speed train crash.
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To be given this order was common for a lady-in-waiting, but unusual for her, because she was unmarried - the order was usually given to a former maid-of-honour after marriage. She was the foster mother of Charlotte Baden (1740–1824 and introduced her to her future benefactor Charlotte Amelie. Anna Susanne von den Osten was unmarried and a member of Kloster Uetersen, the Lutheran convent at Uetersen in Schleswig-Holstein. In 1770, she created the Foundation to the Support of Noble Maidens (Stiftelse til adelige Frøkeners Underhold), later known as Den von Ostenske Stiftelse, to support Lutheran spinsters from the nobility with no other support.
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A custom once in vogue in Tehran was to seek the intercession of the so-called "Pearl Cannon" () on the occasion of Charshanbe Suri. This heavy gun, which was cast by the foundry-man Ismāil Isfahāni in 1800, under the reign of Fath-Ali Shah of the Qajar dynasty, became the focus of many popular myths. Until the 1920s, it stood in Arg Square (, ), to which the people of Tehran used to flock on the occasion of Charshanbe Suri. Spinsters and childless or unhappy wives climbed up and sat on the barrel or crawled under it, and mothers even made ill- behaved and troublesome children pass under it in the belief that doing so would cure their naughtiness.
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The novel is set in 1943 in the fictional town of Thames Lockdon (based on Henley- on-Thames), and largely follows the experiences of Miss Roach who lives in the Rosamund Tea Rooms, a guest house, having left London during the Blitz. Also residing at the guest house are Mr Thwaites (described as the 'President in Hell'), Miss Steele, Miss Barrett (both aging spinsters) and Mr Prest (a retired comedian). Miss Roach works at a publishing firm, 'as a secretary and in other capacities' in London. The opening sequence describes London as a great monster respiring, drawing workers into the city through its lungs in the morning and expelling them in the evening.
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Peter Laslett undertook a study of Clayworth monitoring migration and population changes during the 12 years from 1676 to 1688. Laslett aimed to study how far people moved in relation to their parish of birth. The purpose of the study was to collect detailed data on the residents of Clayworth, it was undertaken by people who lived in the parish itself, the church wardens. The findings from this study showed how 61% of Clayworth's population had migrated away from the village over the 12-year study period, a variety of reasons were suggested including people choosing to move parish to remarry and spinsters who were not socially tied to the village, although the real reasons are unknown.
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The Court upheld the will in 1739, but decreed that the age at entry to the hospital should be 50 years, to ensure that it would be a refuge for elderly spinsters, and not a house of retirement for young women. The house was completed in 1743 and opened to its first ten women beneficiaries, who were paid the stipend that made the establishment an alms house. Because so many almshouses were for widows, one slightly unfortunate result was that it became known as the Old Maids' Hospital or, sometimes, the Protestant Old Maids' Hospital. A farm near Brompton-on-Swale, formerly part of the endowment, is still known as Old Maids Farm.
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He painted a large picture of the review of the Hertfordshire volunteers by the king in Hatfield Park, 13 June 1800, which was engraved by J. C. Stadler, and once hung in Lord Salisbury's town house, 20 Arlington Street. Livesay was an exhibitor at the Royal Academy of portraits and domestic subjects up to 1821; his Genius and Industry, Cottage Spinsters, and Young Foresters were mezzotinted by George Dawe and John Murphy, and his portraits of Queen Charlotte, Dr. Willis, George Byng, M.P., Dr. Fothergill, Sir Thomas Louis, bart., and others, were engraved. A portrait by Livesay of James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of Charlemont has a copy in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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From the Introduction by Sarah Dunant (2014) in the Virago Modern Classics edition: > In her fifth novel North Face (1949) nursing becomes character rather than > plot. Inside a love story between two guests in a Yorkshire [sic] boarding > house after the war, Renault uses two women in their thirties as a kind of > sparring Greek chorus, ruminating on the morality (or not) of the affair. > Already very much professional spinsters, one is a desiccated prissy > academic, while the other is a blowzy, more down-to-earth professional > nurse. Though the satire is at the expense of them both (at times they are > more entertaining than the rather laboured love story), the nurse at least > feels in touch with life.
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Anthropologist Emma Howick arrives in a small English village in the late 1970s, wanting to write a piece on how village life has changed (or not changed). Emma spends her days trying to examine the residents, treating them as subjects for her paper, including the vicar and his sister, the feuding local doctors and their wives, a food critic, and the resident spinsters and bohemians. Emma ponders whether she could adjust permanently to village life, and notes the changes that time has wrought on local customs. Among them are the decline of the manor house, which was once the site of regular gatherings for locals, but is now off limits, and the life of the vicar, Tom.
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Records at the Devon Archives and Local Studies Service (South West Heritage Trust) show the conveyance by "James Rowe of Great Torrington" of lands at Bagdale and Fullerswood and his other property in Jamaica to his eldest son William in exchange for a payment of £500 p.a. to James Rowe and £50 p.a. to five of James Rowe's younger children identified as "James Rowe the younger of St Elizabeth" (in Jamaica), John Rowe of Great Torrington, Clerk, Charles Rowe of St Elizabeth, Judith Rowe and Mary Rowe of Great Torrington, spinsters. In 1800 the nephew of James Rowe sold the manor of Alverdiscott to Richard Preston, MP,"MP" per Lysons who still owned it in 1822,Lysons, Devonshire in which year Rev.
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GCLS promotes lesbian fiction through the Goldie awards,Golden Crown Literary Society Awards a yearly awards program with the awards bestowed at the annual conference. Since their inception, the awards categories have expanded from four categories in 2005 to fourteen categories in 2016 plus five special awards. Eight finalists can be shortlisted in each of the categories with a maximum of three equal winners named in each category. In recent years, more than 250 titles from more than three dozen publishers (such as Alyson, Bedazzled Ink, Bella Books, Blue Feather, Bold Strokes Books, Carroll & Graf Publishers, Copper Canyon Press, Farrar Straus Giroux, Haworth, Intaglio, Launch Point Press, Sapphire Books, Spinsters Ink, St. Martin's Press and various university presses) have been nominated for consideration.
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The film was directed by Martin Donovan and starred Hart Bochner and Colin Firth. Bryan plays the role of one of two eccentric characters (the other was played by Liz Smith) described by The Washington Post as two "tea-and-crumpet gargoyle-featured spinsters who snoop the corridors". It featured in the 1988 Sundance Film Festival.Apartment Zero' (R), Washington Post, 3 November 1989. Throughout her career, she continued to perform on the stage, often appearing in musicals such as Gentleman Prefer Blondes (1962) and Hello, Dolly! (1966–68). She also headlined a number of stage revues such as The Dora Bryan Show (1966), "My Name Is Dora" (1967) and An Evening with Dora Bryan and Friends (1968). She made her Broadway debut as Mrs.
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According to the obituary for Lucille Emmeline Campbell, Lynette Dolphin and Campbell belonged "to a small group of local grandes dames who, in the middle of the 20th century, sought to project their values through dress, speech, work, religion and demeanour in every endeavour. As some, like her, remained spinsters and turned to teaching, they were able to devote their talents totally to social and educational pursuits where their influence spread far and wide." Sources: Carmen E Jarvis History of the Bishops' High School; Maureen Massay Eulogy for Miss Lucille Emmeline Campbell; The Bishops High School Old Students' Association, Directory 2000. The Lynette De Weever Dolphin Center for Excellence in the Creative Arts at Queen's College, Guyana was named after her.
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Two Catherinettes in Paris in 1909 On St Catherine's Day, it is customary for unmarried women to pray for husbands, and to honour women who have reached 25 years of age but have not married—called "Catherinettes" in France. Catherinettes send postcards to each other, and friends of the Catherinettes make hats for them—traditionally using the colours yellow (faith) and green (wisdom), often outrageous—and crown them for the day. Pilgrimage is made to St Catherine's statue, and she is asked to intercede in finding husbands for the unmarried lest they "don St. Catherine's bonnet" and become spinsters. The Catherinettes are supposed to wear the hat all day long, and they are usually feted with a meal among friends.
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The number of soldiers began to decline, and then quickly rose again. For the remainder of the 19th Century, military personnel made up a quarter of Bermuda's population, and defence spending, not agriculture or tourism, was the central leg of the Bermudian economy. Many wealthy American visitors actually brought their daughters to holiday on the island specifically in hopes of marrying them to the young, aristocratic military and naval officers who were posted to Bermuda (this put them in competition with local women, as Bermuda had a disproportionate number of spinsters). The new Princess Hotel made the most of this market, sponsoring dances and other social gatherings to which the officers of the garrison were invited to mingle with guests.
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All states that were successful in securing full voting rights for women before 1920 were located in the West. A federal amendment intended to grant women the right to vote was introduced in the U.S. Senate for the first time in 1878 by Aaron A. Sargent, a Senator from California who was a women's suffrage advocate.. Stanton and other women testified before the Senate in support of the amendment.. The proposal sat in a committee until it was considered by the full Senate and rejected in a 16-to-34 vote in 1887. See also: Excerpt from An amendment proposed in 1888 in the U.S. House of Representatives called for limited suffrage for women who were spinsters or widows who owned property.
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Norris Almshouses Profile of Mary Smith Norris Bell turret on the Norris Almshouses The Norris Almshouses were erected in 1893 on Berridge Road in Sherwood Rise, Nottinghamshire. They comprise a row of eight one-bedroom houses for Ladies, designed by the architect Fothergill Watson and paid for by Mary Smith Norris (1827-1909) in 1893 in memory of her brother John Norris. The charity objectives were to provide a residence available for poor widows or spinsters or married couples of not less than 60 years of age resident in the City of Nottingham or within a distance of 6 miles therefrom. Preferences shall be given to persons so qualified who are members of the Church of England or some orthodox Protestant dissenting denomination.
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Pallot's Marriage Index includes more than 1.5 million marriages in England (three million people) which took place between 1780 and the commencement of civil registration on 1 July 1837. Pallot's Marriage Index covers all but two of the 103 Church of England parishes in the old City of London and Middlesex, and more than 2,500 parishes in 38 counties outside London. Compilation began in 1813 using handwritten slips of paper to record the names of the bride and groom, the date of marriage and the church or chapel in which the marriage was celebrated. Collection continued over a period of more than 150 years, often including details such as whether the bride and groom had been spinsters, bachelors, widows, or widowers.
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The campaign pointed out the large rise in receipts to the National Health Insurance Fund from the corresponding rise in unmarried women who were obliged to work. This was one of many actuarial injustices suffered by spinsters who contributed to the Fund, yet drew little from it in return. In fact a definite formula for calculating the ratio of contributions to benefits was difficult to arrive at. There had been a shift to contributory funding in 1925 which "threw a veil of mystification over the pension scheme, consolidating the political power of the actuaries within Whitehall and providing scope for endless, wearisome arguments over the technical relationship between contributions and benefits" Little daunted by this, Florence and the campaigners continued to mount reasoned financial arguments for their cause.
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According to Chrétien, in 1842 they were producing four types of fabric: farmers' sheets and Cadiz sheets made from local wool were supplied to the cantons of Briouze and Putanges and the region around Domfront; sheets from wool and cotton striped in various colours, called Saint-Lô; and a coloured fabric on cotton thread, called African, which adorned the countrywomen of the cantons of Ecouché, Briouze, Carrouges, Mortrée, Argentan and Trun. Chrétien mentions a mechanical spinning-mill employing 40 men, 20 children and 5 spinsters, plus 3 tanneries and 2 tawers (leather-dressers). These products were offered for sale in Great Hall in the Market Place. Écouché market The people of Écouché are business-minded and their pugnacity, well known in the region, earned them some nicknames considered not very flattering.
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Being still unmarried would have been regarded as unusual for middle class women of this generation, although for the generation born a couple of decades later the impact on the gender balance of wars in Africa (and elsewhere) would leave Germany, Britain, and other colonial powers each with a significant surplus of sometimes reluctant spinsters. It was at the age of 36 that Elster was confined to bed by a lengthy and serious illness, and it was only then that she reached the (also unconventional) decision that she should become an artist. On her recovery, in 1897 she relocated to Munich where she produced her early works which were mostly water colours. She also began to take lessons from the well regarded Munich-based landscape artist Fritz Baer (1850-1919).
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A companion to the fairy tale, Hilda Ellis Davidson, Anna Chaudhri, DS Brewer, 2006, , . page. 107 A well known folktale to feature this character was recorded in Selkirkshire and featured her along with two other spinsters, Scantlie Mab and Owkasaánd, who in complement to Habetrot's deformed lips feature a splayed foot and a flat thumb respectively. This tale is related to tales found in countries such as Germany (such as The Three Spinners) and Norway (The Three Aunts). According to the folklore of the borders it was considered unlucky to step upon "unchristened ground" (the graves of stillborn or unbaptised children) and any who did were said to catch "grave-merels" (or "grave-scab") an illness that causes difficulty of breathing and trembling limbs as well as the burning of the skin as if touched by a hot iron.
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Shortly after, he watched a television interview with the prominent Wiccan Gerald Gardner, whose arguments against a hostile Christian clergyman impressed Howard. He went on to study at an agricultural college in Somerset, as part of which he was assigned to a work placement on a smallholding between Wincanton and Castle Cary which was run by two elderly spinster sisters. An elderly man who sometimes worked on the farm recounted to Howard various aspects of local folklore, including a belief in witchcraft. The old man informed him that the spinsters nailed rowan twigs above the doors to their barn and cowshed on May Eve and Halloween in order to ward off fairies and "black witches", also telling him that there were solitary female "witches" living on the border between Devon and Somerset who used magic to either curse or cure ailments.
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In his discussions of halakhot, Rabbi Johanan considered expediency and economy as well as law and authority. When Rabbi Tarfon declared that only olive oil was appropriate for the Sabbath- lamp, Rabbi Johanan became impatient: "And what shall the Babylonians do where none but sesame-oil is to be had; and what shall the Medians do, who have nothing but nut-oil; and the Alexandrians, who have nothing but radish-oil; or the Cappadocians, who have only naphtha?".Shab. 26a On another occasion, when Rabbi Akiva suggested that a married woman who has become the common talk of the "spinsters by the moon" ought to be divorced, Johanan remarked, "In that case there is no chance for a daughter of Judah to live with a husband! Only where infidelity is fully established by legal evidence may a divorce be imposed".Giṭ.
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She attended the famed Patapsco Female Institute and was a leading society member in Maryland. She was a cousin of Robert E. Lee's wife and his children spent many summers here after his death. Gabriella was known to be gracious but demanding. She initially lived at nearby Grey Rock but refused to stay there long as her husband had shared that home with his first wife. Her daughters were unable to leave her side during her lifetime, especially after the accidental 1903 death of her youngest son, Parke Custis, rendering them middle-aged spinsters at the time of her death. The Mackubins raised five children here: # Ella Mackubin (1870–1956): unmarried; graduated from Patapsco Female Institute in 1886 # George Mackubin (1872–1964): married Maud Tayloe Perrin of Gloucester County, Virginia; He was the founder of McKubin & Company in 1899, now Legg Mason.
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The Richmond Charities is an almshouse charity based in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames with its origins dating back to 1600. The charity provides affordable housing for people in housing need. It also administers two relief-in-need welfare charities, a relief-in-sickness charity and a very small charity that awards small quarterly grants to four deserving spinsters. The charity is an amalgamation of five Richmond almshouse charities and a Twickenham almshouse charity that was itself formed from 27 united charities. Richmond Charities manages 124 almshouses, mainly of one-bedroom cottages and bungalows, in Richmond and Twickenham: 50 at Hickey's Almshouses; 9 at Houblon's; 10 at Bishop Duppa's (founded by Brian Duppa, Bishop of Chichester); 4 at Queen Elizabeth's; 18 at Michel's; 5 at Benn's Walk, 18 at Church Estate and 10 at Candler (Twickenham).
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A new college called Mount St Mary's opened on the main Street of Katoomba in 1901, and in 1903 Mother Mary Eulalia was appointed Rectress of the college. The Mount St Mary's premises in town eventually proved inadequate for the rapidly increasing student base, so, in 1907, it was decided to purchase substantial acreage to the north of the railway station on which to build a brand new boarding house for girls and convent accommodation for the Sisters. Bridget McGuigan, Julia O'Connor and Helena Bourke of the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity (but denominated on the title deeds as spinsters) purchased the subject site (Lots 26 - 35) from Frank Grimley (The Grimley Subdivision) on 10 June 1907. The site included the cottage known as "The Rocks" (designed by Varney Parkes for John Fletcher M.A.) which was located in the south west corner of the site.
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Spinsters in Jeopardy is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the seventeenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1954. The novel is set in Southern France, where Alleyn, his painter wife Agatha Troy and their young son Ricky are holidaying, although Alleyn is also tasked by his Scotland Yard superiors with meeting French police colleagues to discuss international drug trafficking through Marseilles. On the overnight sleeper train from Paris, the Alleyns witness what appears to be a fatal night-time stabbing in the illuminated window of a dramatically-set mediaeval castle overlooking the railway line. This proves to be the resort of an élite, louche group of socialites who are dabbling in Black Magic under the auspices of a smoothly dubious host and 'high priest' of a cult that clearly involves recreational drug-taking, with vulnerable wealthy women potentially exploited.
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As a result of the slaughter of men in the First World War, there was in the UK a considerable imbalance between the sexes. It is not exactly known when Wimsey recruited Miss Climpson to run an undercover employment agency for women, a means to garner information from the otherwise inaccessible world of spinsters and widows, but it is prior to Unnatural Death (1927), in which Miss Climpson assists Wimsey's investigation of the suspicious death of an elderly cancer patient. Wimsey's highly effective idea is that a male detective going around and asking questions is likely to arouse suspicion, while a middle-aged woman doing it would be dismissed as a gossip and people would speak openly to her. As recounted in the short story "The Adventurous Exploit of the Cave of Ali Baba", in December 1927 Wimsey fakes his own death, supposedly while hunting big game in Tanganyika, to penetrate and break up a particularly dangerous and well-organised criminal gang.
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James Joyce's novel Ulysses (1922) is a meticulous depiction of the city on a single day, 16 June 1904. At the base of the Pillar trams from all parts of the city come and go; meanwhile the character Stephen Dedalus fantasises a scene involving two elderly spinsters, who climb the steps to the viewing gallery where they eat plums and spit the stones down on those below, while gazing up at "the one- handled adulterer". Joyce shared Yeats's view that Ireland's association with England was an essential element in a shared history, and asked: "Tell me why you think I ought to change the conditions that gave Ireland and me a shape and a destiny?" Oliver St. John Gogarty, in his literary memoir As I Was Going Down Sackville Street, considers the Pillar "the grandest thing we have in Dublin", where "the statue in whiter stone gazed forever south towards Trafalgar and the Nile".
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Dick Hannay, under forty and already a successful Brigadier-General with good prospects of advancement, is called out of uniform by his old comrade, spymaster Sir Walter Bullivant, and sent to Fosse Manor in the Cotswolds to receive further instructions. He must pose as a South African, an objector to the war, and once more takes on the name Cornelius Brand (an Anglicisation of the name he had used on his adventures in Germany in Greenmantle). He is upset by the idea of such a pose, but comforted by thoughts of his friend Peter Pienaar, briefly a successful airman and now a prisoner in Germany, and by the beauty of the Cotswold countryside. At Fosse, he meets two middle-aged spinsters, their cousin Launcelot Wake, a conscientious objector, and their niece Mary Lamington, a girl whose prettiness had struck Hannay earlier, while visiting a shell- shocked friend in the hospital where she works.
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After graduating from RADA, she found constant work in both the regions and the West End theatre, appearing alongside Hermione Gingold in the wartime revue Rise Above It at the ‘Q’ (1940) and at the Comedy Theatre (1941). In the same decade, she was in Love Goes to Press, with Irene Worth, at the Embassy Theatre (in Swiss Cottage) and Duchess Theatre (1946) and briefly on Broadway the following year; School for Spinsters (Criterion Theatre, 1947), Portrait of Hickory (Embassy, 1948) and opposite Jack Buchanan in Don't Listen, Ladies! at the St James's Theatre in 1949. She was no less busy in the '50s, with appearances in Lionel Shapiro's The Bridge for Bristol Old Vic (1952); 13 for Dinner (Duke of York's Theatre, 1953); the world premier of I Capture the Castle, with Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers and Roger Moore, which opened at Grand Theatre, Blackpool before transferring to the Aldwych Theatre in 1954; and Robert Morley’s Six Months’ Grace (Phoenix Theatre, 1957).
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Inside St Catherine's Chapel St Catherine is the patron saint of spinsters and virgins, particularly those in search of husbands, and until the late 19th century the chapel had a local tradition where young women of Abbotsbury would 'wish', which involved using the niches provided (one for a knee and two other two holes for the hands) in the east jamb of the south doorway to 'post' prayers and make a wish to the saint asking for her help and aid. A traditional prayer used here says: > A husband, St Catherine, > A handsome one, St Catherine, > A rich one, St Catherine, > A nice one, St Catherine, > And soon, St Catherine. In the local dialect version the request ends with the expression "Arn-a-one's better than Narn-a-one", meaning that anyone is better than 'never a one'. The dedication of the chapel to St Catherine of Alexandria is rare, but her cult was one of the most popular in medieval England.
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For example, Beilenson's essay, "Men in Printing", was printed at the Peter Pauper Press, while Anne Lyon Haight's satire, "Are Women the Natural Enemies of Books?" was printed at the Powgen Press. Beilenson's introduction to a 1950 Distaff Side publication, A Children's Sampler, clearly illuminates the group's mission: :"The Distaff Side is a loosely-knit organization ... of women; and its membership has been enlisted from printing- offices, publishing houses, studios and other hiding-places where may be found devotees of the graphic arts.... [It] was born out of a righteous indignation that sufficient recognition had never been accorded to woman's place in the history of printing. To amend this deficiency, The Distaff Side published its first book, titled Bookmaking on the Distaff Side, which disclosed the monumental contributions which spinsters, wives, and widows have made to the graphic arts." Under Beilenson's leadership, members of the same group later formed the Distaff Press which published several other titles on the subject of women's printing history.
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All 32 novels feature Chief Inspector Alleyn (later Chief Superintendent) of the Criminal Investigation Department, Metropolitan Police (London). The series is chronological: published and probably written in order of the fictional history. # A Man Lay Dead (1934) # Enter a Murderer (1935) # The Nursing Home Murder (1935) # Death in Ecstasy (1936) # Vintage Murder (1937). Marsh's working title was The Case of the Greenstone Tiki (Otago Daily Times, 13 March 1937) # Artists in Crime (1938) # Death in a White Tie (1938) # Overture to Death (1939) # Death at the Bar (1940) # Surfeit of Lampreys (1941); Death of a Peer in the U.S. # Death and the Dancing Footman (1942) # Colour Scheme (1943) # Died in the Wool (1945). Serialised: Wagga Wagga Daily Advertiser (1946) # Money in the Morgue (2018) (unfinished – completed by Stella Duffy) # Final Curtain (1947) # Swing Brother Swing (1949); A Wreath for Rivera in the U.S.. Serialised: Home Magazine (1949) # Opening Night (1951); Night at the Vulcan in the U.S. Serialised: Woman's Day (1951) # Spinsters in Jeopardy (1954); abridged later in the U.S. as The Bride of Death (1955) # Scales of Justice (1955).
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In this book, Troy has a suitor, John Bellasca, with whom she dines and lunches in town, although she shows no serious interest in him, and we learn quite a lot more about Troy, including her aversion to capital punishment and consequent difficulty dealing with Alleyn's occupation, a theme that crops up in further books. Alleyn is described by Marsh biographer Margaret Lewis as "conduct[ing] his investigation in a state of hypersensitive apology. He gets his murderer, but is resigned to continue waiting for the woman he really wants, Agatha Troy." His courtship continues, in similarly awkward circumstances, in the next novel Death In A White Tie (1938), by which time Troy is living in London and seems to have sold or given up Tatler's End House (of which no more is heard), but the following two books Overture To Death (1939) and Death At The Bar (1940) show him engaged and duly married to Troy, with a child on the way, their only son Ricky, who appears as a six-year-old in Spinsters In Jeopardy (1954) and again, as a young writer and the principal narrator in Last Ditch (1977).
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Joe Rich Hartnett: Portrait of a Technocratic Brigand Sydney: Turton & Armstrong, 1996 p.2 Larry began his schooling in 1903 in the home of a pair of middle-aged spinsters who taught him and some eight or nine other children in their dining room. From there he graduated two years later to Kingston Grammar School and from 1909 he attended Epsom College, which specialised in educating the sons of doctors who were, themselves, generally destined to enter that profession. Larry had obtained a foundation scholarship, offered to those doctors’ sons whose families could not afford the fees.C.J. Swete A Handbook of Epsom East Ardsley, Wakefield: E.P. Publishing Ltd, 1973 p. 63; G. Home Epsom: Its History and its Surroundings London: The Homeland Association, 1901 p.42; Epsom College School List 1910 p. 5-6, in Epsom College archives In his first year, the school’s Natural History Society created an Aeroplane Section in which he took a close interest, pasting photos of aircraft and newspaper cuttings about aviation into an exercise book as well as making detailed drawings of their parts and participating in the construction of a full-sized glider which the Section launched on a five hundred metre flight in 1912.
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