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Spinsterhood

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Spinsterhood
Forsyte, June
jilted by her fiance, becomes an old maid. [Br. Lit.: The Forsyte Saga]
Grundy, Miss
prim and proper schoolteacher, continually vexed by her students’ antics. [Comics: “Archie” in Horn, 87]
Havisham, Miss
old spinster; always wore her bridal dress though jilted on wedding day. [Br. Lit.: Great Expectations]
Lovell, Charlotte
rather than reveal that an orphan girl is her own child, she spends her life as an old maid. [Am. Lit.: Edith Wharton The Old Maid in Magill I, 679]
Sloper, Catherine
becomes an old maid rather than marry a man interested in her inheritance. [Am. Lit.: Washington Square in Hart, 899]
Throssel, Miss Phoebe
a spinster with marriage continually on her mind. [Br. Lit.: Quality Street, Magill I, 793–795]
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It was once the residence of a country squire, whose family, probably dwindling down to mere spinsterhood, got merged in the more territorial name of Donnithorne.
Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context
And yet, though all these circumstances make the spinsterhood of this old maid an extraordinary thing, it is not difficult to explain how and why, in spite of her fortune and her three lovers, she was still unmarried.
An Old Maid by de Balzac, Honore View in context
 
 
 
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