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If you think your folks give you a hard time for not marrying, try being a woman in the Victorian era. For single ladies of those times, public ridicule was the norm.
If you think your folks give you a hard time for not marrying, try being a woman in the Victorian era. For single ladies of those times, public ridicule was the norm.
If you think your folks give you a hard time for not marrying, try being a woman in the Victorian era. For single ladies of those times, public ridicule was the norm.
But in the Victorian era, there was immense pressure for women to tie the knot. Those who didn't were described as 'Spinsters' and were the subject of cruel jokes. But a popular weekly magazine from the 1880s shows that unmarried women were perfectly capable of fighting back. Comments sent in by single women who had been invited in a competition to explain, 'Why I am a Spinster' showed the acerbic wit of respondents. Historian Dr Bob Nicholson found the jokes while studying an 1889 edition of Tit- Bits Magazine, which continued to be published until 1984. Dr Nicholson told MailOnlin...