Or perhaps, in a more generous mood, you'd have her turning 40 and sinking gracefully into the silent oblivion of confirmed spinsterhood. |
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Betty, the eldest and headed for spinsterhood, works as a nurse for Mike, a middle-aged medico married to the middle sister, Ann, who is pregnant and unhappy. |
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Instead, the girls seem to have drifted into worlds of their own — one into young motherhood, the other into spinsterhood. |
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With the exception of Emma Woodhouse, all the Heroines are penniless and have no dependable prospect other than comfortless spinsterhood. |
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If a young woman had not yet tied the knot by the age of 23, she and her family would begin to worry that she might be doomed to spinsterhood for life. |
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The world had made up its mind about her oddity in her spinsterhood. |
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Being unmarried at age 22 brought fears of spinsterhood. |
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In an entertaining but fundamentally unsatisfying reclamation of spinsterhood, Kate Bolick puts a stake through the heart of Bridget Jones, the singleton who wanted to be anything but. |
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