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  1. I found this extremely interesting. I loved the part where society didn’t want to deal with widows… out of sight, out of mind… but, in fact… female capital was the ground on which they stood. Yeah, that’s forward thinking for you.

  2. Well I assume that if a man’s wife died, he didn’t have to wear black for 12 months and avoid society? Or am I wrong?

    • Nope, not wrong. In part because he couldn’t be pregnant, he only might wear a black ribbon around his arm for a time. He could remarry very soon–after all who would run his house and managed the children if he didn’t have a wife?

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