Primary Sources
Here is a selection of published historical
primary sources (non-fiction) on single women, listed
in order of date originally published. See also the
auto/biography
section for lifewriting by single women.
Additions are greatly appreciated - please e-mail
the compiler at arachne [at] medusanet.ca
and I'll include them.
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Practical Suggestions on the Formation of Female
Dormatories. London,: Blackburn & Burt, 1977.
Billings, Victoria. The Womansbook. Los
Angeles: Wollstonecraft Inc., 1974.
Arnold, Roxane, and Olive Chandler, eds. Feminine
Singular: Triumphs and Tribulations of the Single
Woman: An Anthology. London: Femina Books, 1974.
Meynell, Esther. English Spinster: A Portrait.
Chapman & Hall, 1939.
Barnes, Earl. "The Celibate Women to-Day."
Popular Science Monthly (June 1915): 550-556.
Lytton, Constance, and Jane Warton. Prisons &
Prisoners. New York: George H. Doran Co., 1914.
Gulick, Sidney Lewis. A Sociological Experiment
among Factory Girls. A Report of the Matsuyama Factory
Girls' Home [1907]. [Microfilm]. Woodbridge,
[Conn.]: Research Publications, [1977] (History of
women, reel 943, no. 8590).
Brown, Haydn. Advice to Single Women. London:
Sisley's ltd., 1907.
Stearns, Lutie Eugene. Books of Interest and
Consolation to Spinsters [1904]. [Microform].
Woodbridge [Conn.]: Research Publications, [1977]
(History of women, reel 935, no. 7955).
Reed, Myrtle. The Spinster Book. New York,
London,: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1901.
Paine, Harriet E. The Unmarried Woman. New
York: Dodd Mead and Company, 1892.
Grey, Mrs. William. Old Maids: A Lecture.
London: William Ridgway, 1875.
Greenwell, Dora. 'Our Single Women.' North British
Review 36 (1862): 62-87.
Anonymous. Single Blessedness; or Single Ladies
and Gentlemen against the Slanders of the Pulpit,
the Press and the Lecture Room. Addressed to Those
Who Are Really Wise and to Those Who Fancy Themselves
So. New York: CS Francis, 1852.
Old Maids; Their Varieties, Characters, and Conditions.
London: Smith Elder and Co., 1835.
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