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  1. Wow, how did these poor women live with this hanging over their heads? Then too, there were the many wars that took so many of the marriageable men. That pool was constantly being drained due to so many lost in their service to King and Country. I have this book and look forward to reading it. Thank you for this post and the research necessary to complete it. Blessings on its success.

  2. Frances Trollope’s ‘Paris and the Parisians’ (pub in the 1830s) was interesting in showing differences between French & English societies on this issue. Single genteel ladies were nearly unknown in Paris, since it was the accepted duty of families to find marriage partners for their daughters very soon after their finishing convent school. The young woman wasn’t presumed to marry for love–in fact she shouldn’t be ‘attached’ to anyone–rather it was the job of the husband to act in such a way as to make his wife fall in love with him. The French were appalled to learn of so many unmarried English ladies. If spinsters in England were not respected, spinsters in France were invisible.

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