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Author:

Hill, Bridget.

Title:

Women alone : spinsters in England, 1660-1850 / Bridget Hill.

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

viii, 219 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Single women--Great Britain--Social conditions--17th century.
Single women--Great Britain--Social conditions--18th century.
Single women--Great Britain--Social conditions--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-211) and index.

Contents:

Single women in agriculture -- Single women in manufacturing -- Single women in business -- Teachers, governesses and ladies' companions -- Spinsters who stayed at home -- Spinsters and learned ladies -- The poor spinster and the poor law -- Crime, prostitution and the single woman -- The surveillance of single women -- Ways of escape -- Religion and the spinster -- Friendship and pastimes.

ISBN:

9780300088205
0300088205

OCLC:

(OCoLC)48467047
(OCoLC)47356522

LCCN:

2001093744

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)