Bridget Hill.

Bridget Hill. Women Alone: Spinsters in England, 1660-1850 strange Haven, Conn.: Yale University Pres 2001 Pp viii, 219 $3750 ISBN 0-300-08820-5

At a time when self-help authors push women to focus on finding a mate or face the survey of a lonely old age, Bridget Hill's work is a timely reminder that a certain quantity of women through choice or constraint, have always remained unmarried. Women Alone examines the many challenges that never-married women faced in the seventeenth eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. While economic and social status serv as healthy determinants on how

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