| The proximity to Spinner Lane may indicate that some of the cottages could have housed spinsters. |
| Unmarried women over twenty were considered spinsters, and bachelors in their late twenties were subjected to public censure and mockery. |
| Both widows and spinsters were prominent in property ownership and in financing businesses as sleeping partners. |
| As early as 1883 Canadian Prime Minister John A. Macdonald considered giving the vote to propertied widows and spinsters. |
| The experience of these nineteenth-century spinsters cannot be divorced from their language because it structured their experience, indeed, it made their experience possible. |
| What is to be regretted, however, is the demise of all those conscientious spinsters and widows who used to type authors' manuscripts. |
