The Rise of Spinsters

Women in northern Europe marry quite late so they even if they end up becoming wives and mothers they're single for a good deal longer than me. Single women are quite economically vulnerable and on the margins they're often in service there are definitely lots of women who are single but we mustn't kind of shake our pom poms team back to say are amazing coming powered single women in the middle of ages and the renaissance it's not that we have words like spinster precisely because it says that you know they're under someone's control.