Never married women

""[Simon] deals seriously and perceptively with lives almost never granted such respect--those of the 'spinster,' the 'old maid.' ...There is also a particular ironic energy."" --The Nation""Nothing is more ridiculous than someone who says, upon learning that I never got married, 'Oh, you would like my Aunt _____ ! She never got married either. You two would have a lot in common.' ""--from an interview, August 1984.In this timely and provocative study, Barbara Levy Simon interviews fifty American women, born between 1884 and 1918 who were never married, and examines their emphatic ref

"[Simon] deals seriously and perceptively with lives almost never granted such respect--those of the 'spinster, ' the 'old maid.' ... There is also a particular ironic energy."--The Nation"Nothing is more ridiculous than someone who says, upon learning that I never got married, †̃Oh, you would like my Aunt _____! She never got married either. You two would have a lot in common.' "--an interview, August 1984. In this timely and provocative study, Barbara Levy Simon interviews fifty American women, born between 1884 and 1918 who were never married, and examines their emphatic ref

"[Simon] deals seriously and perceptively with lives almost never granted such respectâ€"those of the 'spinster,' the 'old maid.' ...There is also a particular ironic energy." â€"The Nation"Nothing is more ridiculous than someone who says, upon learning that I never got married, 'Oh, you would like my Aunt _____ ! She never got married either. You two would have a lot in common.' "â€"from an interview, August 1984.In this timely and provocative study, Barbara Levy Simon interviews fifty American women, born between 1884 and 1918 who were never married, and examines their emphatic re