"Spinster" is a word we've grown up hearing plenty of in popular culture, from the books of Jane Austen to basically any film about a single woman over 30 (never forget, 'Diary of Bridget Jones ...

Along the way, she’s inspired by five dead women she terms her “spinster awakeners”: New Yorker essayist Maeve Brennan, Vogue columnist Neith Boyce, Bohemian poet Edna St. Vincent Millay ...

In an age where all clothing had to be made by hand and women were empowered as part of guilds, being a spinster wasn’t a bad thing. But the meaning changed over time. “Some scholars suggest ...

The spinster, Bolick says ... the book around her own life and that of her five "awakeners," literary women who were spinsters for at least part of their lives, and whose nerve and fortitude ...

This has meant that single women have been categorised, by way of traditional media, into three easily digestible groupings: the immoral harlot, the eccentric spinster and the tragic never-married.

A bachelor who is 60 years old is indeed a rarity, as the quote above said, and a maiden, a single woman, a spinster, hath no tongue, but can only think of marriage. Let’s face it, there is a ...

the co-creator of Netflix's Never Have I Ever got candid about how others might perceive her as an unmarried woman. Mindy told the Duchess that people "must" think of her as a spinster.

America’s greatest woman painter, Mary Cassatt, a spinster famed for her pictures of mothers and children, got her first big U.S. show last week, 15 years after she died in France. Assembled ...