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Description:At 25 they were 'on the shelf.' But were they embittered spinsters or independent women?The grim image of the 'old maid' as a ridiculous, pathetic, unlovable, unlovely and unloving creature has traditionally shadowed young women. Many have married unhappily, or submitted to constricting domestic roles, rather than face its terrors.Susan Koppelman has discovered and collected this treasury of 'old maid' stories written - often by 'old maids' themselves - between 1835 and 1891 in the USA. With her substantial introduction as a guide, the reader is taken on an illuminating excursion into the parlours of the nineteenth century, as the voices of single women mark out the gradual shift between spinsterhood suffered and independence welcomed.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Old Maids: Short Stories by Nineteenth Century U.S. Women Writers. To get started finding Old Maids: Short Stories by Nineteenth Century U.S. Women Writers, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 234

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Pandora Press (Boston)

Release: 1984

ISBN: 0863580149

Description: At 25 they were 'on the shelf.' But were they embittered spinsters or independent women?The grim image of the 'old maid' as a ridiculous, pathetic, unlovable, unlovely and unloving creature has traditionally shadowed young women. Many have married unhappily, or submitted to constricting domestic roles, rather than face its terrors.Susan Koppelman has discovered and collected this treasury of 'old maid' stories written - often by 'old maids' themselves - between 1835 and 1891 in the USA. With her substantial introduction as a guide, the reader is taken on an illuminating excursion into the parlours of the nineteenth century, as the voices of single women mark out the gradual shift between spinsterhood suffered and independence welcomed.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Old Maids: Short Stories by Nineteenth Century U.S. Women Writers. To get started finding Old Maids: Short Stories by Nineteenth Century U.S. Women Writers, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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