Old Maids: Short Stories by Nineteenth Century U.S. Women Writers by Susan Koppelman

Old Maids: Short Stories by Nineteenth Century U.S. Women Writers

Susan Koppelman with Alice Ann Carter, Susan Pindar, Rose Terry Cooke, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Frances E.W. Harper, Susan Petigru King, Alice Cary, A.J. Graves, Rebecca Harding Davis, Marion Harland, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Mary Eleanor Watkins, Mary C. Vaughan

234 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)

fiction gender reflective slow-paced
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At 25 they were 'on the shelf.' But were they embittered spinsters or independent women?The grim image of the 'old maid' as a ridiculous, pathetic, unlovable, unlovely and unloving creature has traditionally shadowed young women. Many have married...

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