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- catalog abstract ""We know very little about spinsters in earlier times, for the stigma attached to the unmarried state often rendered these women almost invisible. Now this book opens a window into the lives of English spinsters in the mid-seventeenth to mid-nineteenth centuries, assessing the opportunities open to them and the restrictions placed upon them within different social classes, occupations and periods."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12318824.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""We know very little about spinsters in earlier times, for the stigma attached to the unmarried state often rendered these women almost invisible. Now this book opens a window into the lives of English spinsters in the mid-seventeenth to mid-nineteenth centuries, assessing the opportunities open to them and the restrictions placed upon them within different social classes, occupations and periods."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-211) and index.".
- catalog description "Single women in agriculture -- Single women in manufacturing -- Single women in business -- Teachers, governesses and ladies' companions -- Spinsters who stayed at home -- Spinsters and learned ladies -- The poor spinster and the poor law -- Crime, prostitution and the single woman -- The surveillance of single women -- Ways of escape -- Religion and the spinster -- Friendship and pastimes.".
- catalog extent "viii, 219 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0300088205 (hkb.)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "305.4896520941 21".
- catalog subject "HQ800.4.G7 H54 2001".
- catalog subject "Single women Great Britain Social conditions 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Single women Great Britain Social conditions 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Single women Great Britain Social conditions 19th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Single women in agriculture -- Single women in manufacturing -- Single women in business -- Teachers, governesses and ladies' companions -- Spinsters who stayed at home -- Spinsters and learned ladies -- The poor spinster and the poor law -- Crime, prostitution and the single woman -- The surveillance of single women -- Ways of escape -- Religion and the spinster -- Friendship and pastimes.".
- catalog title "Women alone : spinsters in England, 1660-1850 / Bridget Hill.".
- catalog type "text".