ETIMOLOGIA DELLA PAROLA SPINSTER
(A person, esp a woman, whose occupation is spinning; C17: a woman still unmarried): from spin + -ster.
PAROLE IN INGLESE ASSOCIATE CON «SPINSTER»
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3 CITAZIONI IN INGLESE CON «SPINSTER»
Citazioni e frasi famose con la parola
spinster.
I always thought I was going to end up an old spinster, with my cats and fur coats.
When a gently born spinster has little money, her choices are few. She might receive an offer of marriage, but it's unlikely to be from a wealthy man, so she'll have a hard life trying to make ends meet for her growing family.
There is perhaps no more rewarding romance heroine than she who is not expected to find love. The archetype comes in many disguises - the wallflower, the spinster, the governess, the single mom - but always with one sad claim: Love is not in her cards.
10 LIBRI IN INGLESE ASSOCIATI CON «SPINSTER»
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spinster nella seguente selezione bibliografica. Libri associati con
spinster e piccoli estratti per contestualizzare il loro uso nella letteratura.
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The
Spinster and Her Enemies: Feminism and Sexuality, 1880-1930
Sheila Jeffreys examines the activities of feminist campaigners around such issues as child abuse and prostitution and how these campaigns shaped social purity in the 1880s and 1890s.
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Spinster Goose: Twisted Rhymes for Naughty Children
Traditional Mother Goose nursery rhymes are rewritten, depicting unruly students attending the school of Spinster Goose.
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Spinster Tales and Womanly Possibilities
One. The. Persistent. Spinster. THIS BOOK DESCRIBES the circumstances that
surrounded the puzzling life and death of an American icon.Who was she?
Variously called “spinster,” “old maid,” or “bachelorette,” and once, in the 1950s,
named ...
Naomi Braun Rosenthal,
2012
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The Magnificent
Spinster
The fifty-year friendship of two remarkable women, Jane and Cam, is relived as Cam, in her seventies, recalls and celebrates the personality, compassion, and fulfilling career of her recently deceased friend
Having a thriving cottage industry helping single women to find happiness while remaining unattached, Jodi and Jill find their partnership challenged by Jill's engagement and Jodi's complicated relationships.
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A
Spinster's Luck: Signet Regency Romance (InterMix)
From Rhonda Woodward, a writer with “sparkle and heart,” comes a beloved Signet Regency Romance—available digitally for the first time.
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Edwina Parkhurst,
Spinster
Edwina Parkhurst has a guilty secret, one that she has lied, contrived, and connived to keep hidden.
Patricia Lucas White,
2004
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The Riddle of the Shipwrecked
Spinster
Are these troubles linked to old foes from the Jacobite Rebellion, or could they be the work of a mysterious bidder, intent on bringing down the value of Muse Manor and buying Piers Cranford's beloved family estate?
Myrtle Reed. ffaitbful /Bai&ens to be very interesting. Ten-year engagements did
not seem to be unusual, and it was not considered a social mistake if a man
suddenly disappeared for four or five years, without the formality of mentioning
his ...
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A
spinster's tour in France, the states of Genoa, &c. during ...
of the Sicilies, which was the origin of extreme distress, loss of money, and of
valuable lives, to his French provinces. Mention has been made of the king of
France's (Charles VI.) disastrous expedition from Le Mans to pursue the assassin
of ...
10 NOTIZIE DOVE SI INCLUDE IL TERMINE «SPINSTER»
Vedi di che si parla nei media nazionali e internazionali e come viene utilizzato il termine ino
spinster nel contesto delle seguenti notizie.
Spinster Sisters seek to build hotel in Santa Rosa
The owners of the popular Spinster Sisters restaurant in Santa Rosa have applied to open a small boutique hotel next door, hoping to spark more development ... «Santa Rosa Press Democrat, lug 15»
'Spinster' is a must-read for young women
"Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own" (Crown 2015), Kate Bolick's adult memoir, should be read by all women, but in particular, by young adult women. «Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette, lug 15»
Destigmatizing the word spinster
The word spinster has a negative connotation today. One imagines a woman with a dowager's hump, dressed in black, doing needlepoint. Miss Havisham. «Toronto Star, mag 15»
All the Single Ladies Aren't So Privileged
Author Kate Bolick's widely discussed new memoir, Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own, epitomizes the shift. In a book-length adaptation of a 2011 essay in ... «The Nation., mag 15»
In her new book, Kate Bolick argues why there's nothing wrong with …
To me, the spinster is self-reliant and inscrutable. We think we know what the wife is up to and what the mother is up to but the single woman is mysterious. «The Globe and Mail, mag 15»
Review: 'Spinster' sets rules, scopes the scenario for women living …
Even the opening lines of Kate Bolick's "Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own" (Crown, $26, 336 pages), are provocative: "Whom to marry, and when it will ... «San Jose Mercury News, mag 15»
In her new book, Spinster, Kate Bolick argues there's nothing wrong …
“Spinster” could be “shorthand for holding on to that in you which is independent and self-sufficient, whether you're single or coupled … ,” she writes. “Code for ... «The Globe and Mail, mag 15»
Letters: 'Spinster'
Readers responded on the Times Facebook page and on Twitter to Heather Havrilesky's review of “Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own,” by Kate Bolick (April ... «New York Times, apr 15»
Spinster by Kate Bolick review – not really about being single at all
Kate Bolick, the author of Spinster: she 'couldn't walk down the street without ending ... In Spinster, her new book on the single life, Kate Bolick, possessed of all ... «The Guardian, apr 15»
Linguistics shows that being a single guy has gotten better and …
Not until colonial America did spinster become synonymous with the British old maid, a disparagement that cruelly invokes maiden (a fertile virgin girl) to signify ... «Business Insider, apr 15»