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Exempel på spinster

• Several contributors stress the close relationship between demographic factors and the position and representation of spinsters.

• The view that bachelors and spinsters are in some sense deviant or residual groups appears to have weakened.

• Although she is not exactly a spinster, there is definitely something abstemious to her.

• There was one sale to a local spinster.

• These are single women, possessing an economic power unique to their status as spinsters.

• Judging by the wills of spinsters and widows, women had intense feelings about their possessions.

• British politicians seem to have been less troubled by the prospect of an electorate which included spinsters and widows.

• For example in 1985, 13% of spinsters married a divorced man as compared with 6% in 1971 and 4% in 1961.