spinsterdom

Updated: May 29, 2025

Thus, a tale, for example, dealing either with "feminism" or "white slavery" as the handiest makeshift of spinsterdom or with the divorce habit and plutocratic iniquity in general, or with the probable benefits of converting clergymen to Christianity, or with how much more than she knows a desirable mother will tell her children finds the book's tentative explorer, just now, amply equipped with prejudices, whether acquired by second thought or second hand, concerning the book's topic.

James Branch Cabell - The Certain Hour