Women alone
Subtitle: spinsters in England, 1660-1850
By: Bridget Hill.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New Haven; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
Subjects: Single women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 17th century; Single women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 18th century; Single women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century
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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-211) and index.
Table of contents: title: Single women in agriculture; title: Single women in manufacturing; title: Single women in business; title: Teachers, governesses and ladies' companions; title: Spinsters who stayed at home; title: Spinsters and learned ladies; title: The poor spinster and the poor law; title: Crime,  prostitution and the single woman; title: The surveillance of single women; title: Ways of escape; title: Religion and the spinster; title: Friendship and pastimes.