How Victorian ‘spinsters’ took aim at gentlemen of the day over why they were happily SINGLE
Today, neither women nor men need to explain why they aren’t married. But in the Victorian era, there was immense pressure for women to tie the knot. Those who didn’t were described as ‘Spinsters’ and were the subject of cruel jokes. But a popular weekly magazine from the 1880s shows that unmarried women were perfectly … Read more