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Spinster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia a.new,#quickbar a.new{color:#ba0000} /* cache key: enwiki:resourceloader:filter:minify-css:5:f2a9127573a22335c2a9102b208c73e7 */ Spinster From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: , The neutrality of the style of writing in this article is questioned. Please see the discussion on the talk page. (March 2011) "Old maid" redirects here. For other uses, see Old Maid (disambiguation). A poem entitled "It won't be my fault if I die an Old Maid", containing the lines "Remember no thought to a girl is so dread / As the terrible one?I may die an Old Maid." A spinster, or old maid, is an older, childless woman who has never been married. For a woman to be identified as a spinster, age is critical. A "spinster" is not simply a "single" woman, but a woman who has not formed a human "If someone is a spinster, by implication she is not eligible (to marry); she has had her chance, and been passed by," explains "In modern everyday English," the New Oxford American Dictionary says, "spinster cannot be used to mean simply ?unmarried woman?; it is now always a derogatory term, referring or alluding to a stereotype of an older woman who is unmarried, childless, prissy, and repressed." The title "spinster" has nevertheless been embraced by feminists like

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According to the New Oxford American Dictionary, the term "originated in a town just east of Edinburgh, Scotland called Tranent." The term originally identified girls and women who spun wool. In medieval 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 By the 19th century, the term evolved to mean women who were so finicky, that they refused to marry. During that century "middle-class spinsters, as well as their married peers, took ideals of love and marriage very seriously, and ... spinsterhood was indeed often a consequence of their adherence to those ideals. ... They remained unmarried not because of individual shortcomings but because they didn't find the one 'who could be all things to the heart.'" During that same century, one editorial in the fashion publication mehr

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