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Author Froide, Amy M.

Title Never married : singlewomen in early modern England / Amy M. Froide
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 246 pages)
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Marital status as a category of difference : singlewomen and widows -- 3. Single but not alone : the family history of never-married women -- 4. A maid is not always a servant : singlewomen in the urban economy -- 5. Women of independent means : the civic significance of never-married women -- 6. Spinsters, superannuated virgins, and old maids : representations of singlewomen -- 7. The question of choice : how never-married women represented singleness -- 8. Epilogue
Summary A book of original research on the women who never married in early modern England, this text looks at how singlewomen's lives differed from those of wives and widows, at the social relationships of women without husbands, and at how these women supported themselves
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-242) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Single women -- England -- History -- 16th century
Single women -- England -- History -- 17th century
Single women -- England -- History -- 18th century
Single women -- England -- Social conditions -- 16th century
Single women -- England -- Social conditions -- 17th century
Single women -- England -- Social conditions -- 18th century
Single women -- England -- Economic conditions -- 16th century
Single women -- England -- Economic conditions -- 17th century
Single women -- England -- Economic conditions -- 18th century
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Marriage.
Single women
Single women -- Economic conditions
Single women -- Social conditions
Vrouwen.
Alleenstaanden.
England
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191533709
019153370X
9780199270606
0199270600