Author: Mary Ann FisherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Single women
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Spinster
Author: Kate BolickPublisher: Crown
ISBN: 0385347146
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book “Whom to marry, and when will it happen—these two questions define every woman’s existence.” So begins Spinster, a revelatory and slyly erudite look at the pleasures and possibilities of remaining single. Using her own experiences as a starting point, journalist and cultural critic Kate Bolick invites us into her carefully considered, passionately lived life, weaving together the past and present to examine why she—along with over 100 million American women, whose ranks keep growing—remains unmarried. This unprecedented demographic shift, Bolick explains, is the logical outcome of hundreds of years of change that has neither been fully understood, nor appreciated. Spinster introduces a cast of pioneering women from the last century whose genius, tenacity, and flair for drama have emboldened Bolick to fashion her life on her own terms: columnist Neith Boyce, essayist Maeve Brennan, social visionary Charlotte Perkins Gilman, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, and novelist Edith Wharton. By animating their unconventional ideas and choices, Bolick shows us that contemporary debates about settling down, and having it all, are timeless—the crucible upon which all thoughtful women have tried for centuries to forge a good life. Intellectually substantial and deeply personal, Spinster is both an unreservedly inquisitive memoir and a broader cultural exploration that asks us to acknowledge the opportunities within ourselves to live authentically. Bolick offers us a way back into our own lives—a chance to see those splendid years when we were young and unencumbered, or middle-aged and finally left to our own devices, for what they really are: unbounded and our own to savor.
She I Dare Not Name
Author: Donna WardPublisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1760873519
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A compelling memoir about the single life and the courage to live alone in a world made for couples and families. Astonishing. Luminous. A book about being human. She I Dare Not Name is a compelling collection of fiercely intelligent, deeply intimate, lyrical reflections on the life of a woman who stands on the threshold between two millennia. Both manifesto and confession, this moving memoir explores the meaning and purpose Donna Ward discovered in a life lived entirely without a partner and children. The book describes what it is like to live on the edge of a world built in the shape of couples and families. Rippling through these pages is the way a spinster - or a bachelor, or any of us for that matter - contends with the prejudice and stigma of being different. With courage and astounding honesty Donna uncovers the challenge of living with more solitude than anticipated and what it is like to walk the road through midlife and beyond alone. And she reveals how she found home and discovered herself within it. Funny, sharp, wise and wry, She I Dare Not Name shows how reading saved this spinster's life, and how friends and writing and walking brought a contentment and sense of achievement she never thought possible. 'With a devastatingly clear-eyed honesty, the word Ward dares to name is "spinster", and this meditative collection of essays spin their own spell, making a deep dive into the world of female solitude in all its guises. She lays it out like a calm tarot reading: feminism, courage, silence, loneliness, grief, recovery and the power of the generative idea, as well as all the labels that come with carving out your own path of self-definition and self-determination.' - Cate Kennedy, author of The World Beneath
A Spinster's Story
Author: Mary Ann FisherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Single women
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
A Spinster's Story
Author: Mary A. FisherPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752577088
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.
The Spinster's Christmas (Illustrated Edition)
Author: Camille ElliotPublisher: Camy Tang
ISBN: 1942225105
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
A Regency romantic suspense Prequel to the Lady Wynwood’s Spies series Spinster Miranda Belmoore has become a poor relation in her cousin’s house. She determines to escape a life of drudgery and disdain from her own family members, who are embarrassed by her straightforward speech and unconventional behavior that does not match with proper society. She is beginning to believe what they tell her—that she doesn’t matter to anyone, not even to God. Former naval captain Gerard Foremont is having difficulty adjusting to life back on land, bitter that his career has been cut short by his severely injured knee. A Christmastide houseparty with the Belmoores reunites him with his childhood friend, Miranda, but he is appalled at the verbal abuse she endures and wants to help her. The festivities are disrupted when a cloaked intruder attacks Gerard, with Miranda as the only witness. Now the two of them must uncover who wants to harm him and why, before Twelfth Night ends in murder …
The Spinster's Tale; in which is Introduced Langbridge Fort, a Romance
Author: Ann WingroveA Spinster's Tour in France, the States of Genoa, Etc., During the Year 1827
Author: Elizabeth StruttPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108019153
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Advice on European travel for unaccompanied British ladies in the early nineteenth century.
The Old Engagement: a Spinster's Story
Author: Julia DayThe spinster's scrip, as compiled by C. Raynor
Author: Cecil RaynorLeather Spinsters and Their Degrees of Asexuality
Author: Publisher: St.Mary Pub. Co. of Houston
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description