Spinster
Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A spinster is a legal term for an unmarried woman, aged 38 or over, commonly heard in the banns of marriage of the Church of England when the prospective bride is formally described as a "spinster of this parish". The term "spinster" originally identified girls and women who spun wool. In mediaeval times, this was one of the few livelihoods available to a woman in order to live independently of a male wage. During the Elizabethan era, spinster came to indicate a woman or girl of marriageable age who was unwilling or unable to marry. Nowadays it usually connotes an "old maid", a woman who for any reason remains unmarried and childless past the conventional age for marrying. Susan Boyle, a...
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Дата выхода: июль 2011