The other is that it gives women a better chance of avoiding spinsterhood.
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"I never believed much in her spinsterhood and shriveled sexuality," Charyn writes in his new book.
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She spent years covered in a heavy layer of chalkboard dust, resigned to spinsterhood and bad skin.
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Now 43, Ms Bolick has spent around two decades casting about for inspiring templates of modern-day spinsterhood.
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So if enduring spinsterhood in a sadness shrine is the best she can hope for, what's the worst?
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Just as she decides (once again) to resign herself to spinsterhood, Bridget meets a high-spirited American named Jack (Patrick Dempsey).
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Lizzy's vapid, flirtatious younger siblings, Kitty and Lydia, are an embarrassment to the family, while her older sister, Jane, is approaching spinsterhood.
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As Baby begins, Bridget is single once more, semi-reluctantly embracing her "spinsterhood" following a between-films dissolution of her engagement to Mark.
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They have offered up their lives to the spinsterhood and are perfectly fine with only having Tiger, Whiskers, Coco, and Shadow as dinner guests.
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Eva has nearly resigned herself to a spinsterhood of caring for Sydney; as a different kind of duty, Ethel has married a brutish farmer who served in the war.
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The scene in which Georgie tells Adam how she feels about him, knowing such a declaration will consign her to a life of dependent spinsterhood, vibrates with a jolting current of pain.
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Despite the stereotype that high-achieving women are doomed to spinsterhood, the truth is that these women are now the most likely to tie the knot, and can afford to hold out for the right match.
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I go to the library to invisibly revel in my advancing spinsterhood, and the last thing I need is some dashing architecture student trying to make eye contact through the floor while I subtly press flowers between the pages of Jane Austen books.
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Her mother (Charlotte Rampling) still lives there, along with her two surviving, grown-up children: Roderick (Will Poulter), who was badly wounded in World War II, and Caroline (Ruth Wilson), "the cleverest of the lot" (according to a family friend), who drifts toward eccentric spinsterhood.
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Sex and the City's Cynthia Nixon embraces spinsterhood as the famously reclusive poet Emily Dickinson in this lush biopic that follows her from her days as a gifted but insecure student through her years as an introverted adult, whose attachment to her family leads to self-imposed sequestration.
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" To account for her "spinsterhood," Alcott once explained, "I am more than half-persuaded that I am a man's soul put by some freak of nature into a woman's body … because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.
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Two Girls from Egypt (2010) depicts two single women in their early thirties, examining themes of spinsterhood, sexual experience, unemployment and political corruption.Ekram Ibrahim, 'Two Girls From Egypt': Perils of spinsterhood, Egypt Independent, 22 June 2010. Accessed 30 October 2018. The film was banned in Kuwait.The al-A’rabiyah Company: The fact that “Bentein min Masr” (“Two Girls from Egypt”) was Barred from Screening inside Kuwait is an Internal Matter which does not Affect the Company, elcinema.
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The novel's themes include spinsterhood, racism, sexual tension and public humiliation during the late 1950s. The film version stars Anne Heywood, John Lafayette, Donald Pleasence, Robert Vaughn and, in her final film, Carolyn Jones.
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This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More for Young and Old Alike is the eighth book by Augusten Burroughs. It was released on May 8, 2012."Go Guide Sunday". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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Vera Caspary: Bedelia, p. > 183 (Chapter 7). Caspary, who wrote about the lives of career women in many of her other works (for example in her 1943 novel Laura), shows the limited range of options available to women who lived before the First World War. They could either conform to traditional gender roles and become a wife and mother or choose the less-travelled road of spinsterhood.
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The overwhelming majority of Finns did marry, however. About 90 percent of the women had been married by the age of forty, and spinsterhood was rare. A shortage of women in rural regions, however, meant that some farmers were forced into bachelorhood. While the number of marriages was declining, divorce became more common, increasing 250 percent between 1950 and 1980. In 1952 there were 3,500 divorces.
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Women who have cats have long been associated with the concept of spinsterhood. In more recent decades, the concept of a cat lady has been associated with "romance-challenged (often career-oriented) women". Specifically, it has also been embraced by lesbians. A cat lady may also be an animal hoarder who keeps large numbers of cats without having the ability to properly house or care for them.
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In the American West, a pioneer woman, Sarah, and six women, who are called her daughters, face frontier life. Rather than a straightforward storyline, the musical is presented as a series of short tales and tableaux matched with musical numbers, each presenting an aspect of frontier life or womanhood. The patches or blocks show "girlhood, marriage, childbirth, spinsterhood, twisters, fire, illness and death."Quilters guidetomusicaltheatre.
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The next day, Collins proposes to Elizabeth, who declines; despite her mother's anger, her father supports her decision. When the Bingley party unexpectedly return to London, Elizabeth sends Jane to the city to stay with their aunt and uncle, the Gardiners, hoping to reconnect her with Bingley. Elizabeth is astonished that her friend Charlotte, fearing spinsterhood, has accepted Mr. Collins' proposal. Months later, Elizabeth visits the newly-married Mr. and Mrs.
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A previous MacLean novel established that Penelope had previously been jilted by an earl, leaving her reputation soiled. Despite being on the verge of spinsterhood, Penelope has no intention of making a loveless marriage. Determined to gain control over the land, Bourne compromises her; with her reputation ruined, she will be forced to marry him. Penelope wants to be loved, and she wants her carefree best friend back.
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She is shocked to find that the new hatchlings are weak and malformed. She communicates with one when her father is almost killed and eaten. Sisarqua has turned into a dragon, naming herself Sintara, and is distraught to realize that her proportions are all wrong and she is not what she should be, and will likely never fly. Alise Kincarron is a plain, freckled young woman, past the prime age for marriage and suspecting spinsterhood.
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Some were in contemplative orders; but the majority staffed church institutions, especially elementary schools, hospitals, asylums, and orphanages. Boarding schools were especially popular, and by 1900 to hundred of them attracted 11 percent of all female students in Québec.Susan Mann Trofimenkoff, The Dream of Nation: A Social and Intellectual History of Quebec (1982). pp 122-24Marta Danylewycz, Taking the veil: an alternative to marriage, motherhood, spinsterhood in Quebec, 1840-1920 (McClelland & Stewart, 1987).
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However, in true Agatha Christie fashion she deduces that there was more to the night than there first seemed. It transpires that the entire evening was orchestrated by her friends, that "Canal Yards Project" is an anagram of "Tracy Jordan's Place" and Anders was a Swiss prostitute recommended by Martha Stewart. Despite this, Liz chooses to believe a simpler explanation for the evening and rejects spinsterhood in the belief that she will find love again.
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But, when Morris decides to leave his sick bed, he throws Frank out for good, or so he thinks. Morris grows anxious about his life—his wife is miserable, his daughter on her way to spinsterhood and his poor business no more than a prison. Morris turns down an arsonist's offer to burn his home and store for the insurance money, but then builds a fire himself. As the flames catch on his apron, Morris is saved by Frank.
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Tall, plain Olivia Winfield is rescued from spinsterhood by the smart and handsome Malcolm Foxworth. She thinks she has found "the one" since this is the first man to ever show interest in her. Malcolm, who is taken by her forthright manner and impressed with her intelligence, proposes after only two days' acquaintance. They marry two weeks later, and Olivia leaves her family home in New London, Connecticut and moves to the family's mansion, Foxworth Hall, in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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England, 1908: Emily Ivory (Cates) is a wealthy young woman who lives with her Aunt Agnes (Scales) at Ivory's End, a large country house. At 22, as her aunt constantly reminds her, she is verging on spinsterhood. She meets her brother's best friend, Cedric Trilling (Portal), when the two come home from university. Aunt Agnes wants the two to fall in love: Cedric, however, is a pompous bore who is overly fond of quoting Homer on all sorts of not-quite- appropriate occasions; also, he's a repressed homosexual.
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Facing spinsterhood on her widowed father's farm Emma, with the help of her father, is successful in attracting and contracting a marriage with the local doctor, whose wife has recently died. Charles Bovary is kindly and conscientious, but lacks assertiveness and is a dull conversationalist. Following an aristocratic ball she is more dissatisfied than ever and her husband, noticing this, moves to a larger town with potentially greater diversions, where he is befriended by the apothecary. There she meets the law clerk Léon, with whom she can talk about art, literature, poetry and music.
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This spurs Caesar to end the affair, but causes Servilia to curse both Caesar and Atia. In the episode "Egeria", Atia is concerned about her son Octavian and his apparent lack of virility and masculinity; she hires Titus Pullo to train him as a fighter and to take him to a brothel to lose his virginity. Upon observing Octavian in his toga virilis and seeing how his fighting skills have improved, Atia suggests that he join a military academy. Though a widow, Atia is by no means resigned to celibacy and spinsterhood.
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Lee suggested Elinor's age be changed to twenty-seven, which would also have made the difficult reality of spinsterhood easier for modern audiences to understand. Thompson agreed, later stating that she was "desperate to get into a corset and act it and stop thinking about it as a script." The formal casting process began in February 1995, though some of the actors met with Thompson the previous year to help her conceptualise the script. Lee eventually cast all but one of them: Hugh Grant (as Edward Ferrars), Robert Hardy (as Sir John Middleton), Harriet Walter (as Fanny Ferrars Dashwood), Imelda Staunton (as Charlotte Jennings Palmer), and Hugh Laurie (as Mr. Palmer).
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Capitalizing on the education she received from her brother, Barker established herself as an author within mostly male coteries during the second half of the seventeenth century.Jane Barker, Exile, 48 Barker worked to alleviate the stigma of spinsterhood and make it an acceptable alternative to marriage.Jane Barker, Exile, 63-4 A celibate woman, Barker belonged to the tradition of female martial valor and enjoyed her freedom from men in her own personal life.Jane Barker, Exile, 65 There is evidence that Barker used Katherine Philips' Orinda as a model for her own speaker, Fidelia,Jane Barker, Exiles, 45 without including homosexual undertones that are present within Katherine Philips' writings.
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Wilder and Sherwood are smitten, and Wilder rapidly gives up the idea of marrying his cousin even at the risk of arrest for debt. The principal bailiff, Lurcher, catches up with Wilder, but is prevented from arresting him because he has infuriated the villagers by serving a writ on an old woman of the village. Wilder saves him from a ducking and persuades him to help in a scheme to pay off all Wilder's debts. Dorothy and Lydia, their insistence on permanent spinsterhood shaken by the attractions of Wilder and Sherwood, give the two men rings, making them promise never to part with them.
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In 2001, the Grand Mufti (the highest religious authority) issued a fatwa, or opinion, calling upon Saudi women to accept polygamy as part of the Islamic package and declaring that polygamy was necessary "to fight against...the growing epidemic of spinsterhood". In 2019, marriages under the age of 15 were banned and marriages under the age of 18 would need to be referred to specialialized courts for approval. Prior to that, there was no minimum age for marriage and the Grand Mufti reportedly had said in 2009 that girls of the age of 10 or 12 were marriageable. Men have a unilateral right to divorce their wives (talaq) without needing any legal justification.
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If a woman did not want to marry, another option was entering a convent as a nun.Though cloisters' practices were not bound by modern national borders, see sources for Spain, for Italy, and for Britain to become a "bride of Christ", a state in which her chastity and economic survival would be protected. Both a wife and a nun wore Christian headcovering, which proclaimed their state of protection by the rights of marriage.Silvia Evangelisti, Wives, Widows, And Brides Of Christ: Marriage And The Convent In The Historiography Of Early Modern Italy, Cambridge 2000 Much more significant than the option of becoming a nun, was the option of non- religious spinsterhood in the West.
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However, whereas Flory extols the virtues of the rich culture of the Burmese, the latter frighten and repel Elizabeth, who regards them as "beastly." Worse still is Flory's interest in high art and literature, which reminds Elizabeth of her pretentious mother who died in disgrace in Paris of ptomaine poisoning as a result of living in squalid conditions while masquerading as a Bohemian artist. Despite these reservations, of which Flory is entirely unaware, she is willing to marry him to escape poverty, spinsterhood, and the unwelcome advances of her perpetually inebriated uncle. Flory is about to ask her to marry him, but they are interrupted first by her aunt and secondly by an earthquake.
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However, she criticized Jeffreys for ignoring Ellis's "contribution to female sexual fulfilment." Meigs praised Jeffreys's treatment of figures such as Ellis, Carpenter, Bloch, and Forel, endorsed her view that in 1880s Britain, passionate friendships between women were only acceptable when they posed no threat to heterosexuality, and credited her with documenting the use of accusations of lesbianism as a weapon against feminism in the 19th century. She concluded that Jeffreys "reminds us that patriarchal hostility to lesbians is as strong now as it was in the period she describes so thoroughly." Faderman endorsed Jeffreys's view that the inequality of power between men and women in the area of sexuality is the basis of women's social inequality, and that spinsterhood or lesbianism are remedies to that inequality.
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She had been recommended to director Ranjith for the role by actress Suhasini, and was selected after the director managed to get in contact with her through Madhu Ambat, who was the cinematographer of Sringaram. Hydari portrayed an orphan girl who falls in love with the character played by Mammootty, but her role was considered minimal, with a critic from Rediff stating she "has nothing to do with the overall plot". In 2009, she was cast by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra in his Hindi drama film, Delhi-6, where she portrayed a supporting role of an unmarried woman living in a community where spinsterhood was frowned upon. Featuring in an ensemble cast alongside Abhishek Bachchan and Sonam Kapoor, Hydari was selected by Mehra after he was impressed with her performance in Sringaram.
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In the years before World War I in Byron, Australia, the males of the Hurlingford family hold all the power and money. Those Hurlingford women without a man due to spinsterhood or widowhood lead cramped lives of hard work and little money on scraps of land or in businesses that just barely support them. Thirty-something spinster Missy Wright leads a narrow existence on the wrong side of the tracks with her widowed mother Drusilla Hurlingford Wright and crippled aunt Octavia when Byron is consumed by two events, the upcoming wedding of Missy's beautiful cousin Alicia Marshall to William Hurlingford and the arrival of rough looking stranger named John Smith. With limited funds and suffering bouts of ill health, Missy's only consolation are her trips to the lending library where her distant cousin Una Hurlingford works.
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The advent of a supportive Girin in Lalita's life, a certain jealousy transpired within Shekhar which tended to moderate Lalita's increasing associations with Girin who has now extended his helping hand to Gurucharan's finances and also assisted him in finding a match for Lalita. These situations seemed to stir the instinctual passions of Shekhar and somewhat Lalita for each other and one evening before Shekhar's tour to the west, the duo secretly gets married with a dramatic exchange of garlands formed of marigolds. But a newly married Lalita had to conceal herself in the veil of her spinsterhood as her uncle Gurucharan quits his fight with the law and orders of Hindu society and embraces Brahmoism inspired from the angelic words of Girin. The society abandons them and the same is followed by Shekhar towards Lalita upon his return (though mixed with covetousness over Girin's influence on her family).
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But a newly married Lalita had to conceal herself in the veil of her spinsterhood as her uncle Gurucharan quits his fight with the law and orders of Hindu society and embraces Brahmoism inspired from the angelic words of Girin. The society abandons them and the same is followed by Shekhar towards Lalita upon his return (though mixed with covetousness over Girin's influence on her family). His jeopardies in introducing his wife amidst the society because of the differences in wealth, religion and more importantly due to a precluded marriage of marrying an under-aged woman made him harsh and arrogant towards Lalita who drowned in agony, decides to accompany her family to Munger as a means of healing her psychologically tormented uncle anguished by the sense of isolation. Girin aided them all through his journey to whom Gurucharan had his dying wish of marrying his daughter (suggestively indicated to his niece Lalita) which Girin accepts wholeheartedly.
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