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Looking For The One, Part 3: Reimagining Spinster

Dear Sugars

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The Golden Age of the Great Aunt

The author wrote about 5 women in her book who all lived around the turn of the last century. They are a mix of famous and obscure people, she says. The reason I went and found those women to write about is because I wasn't seeing them in my contemporary moment,. She writes: "I thought the only way to be an adult woman was to be married"

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