Old Maids: Short Stories by Nineteenth Century U.S. Women Writers by Mary C. Vaughan, Rose Terry Cooke, Susan Pindar, Susan Petigru King, Alice Cary, Frances E.W. Harper, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Alice Ann Carter, A.J. Graves, Mary Eleanor Watkins, Rebecca Harding Davis, Susan Koppelman, Marion Harland, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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

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

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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