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"THE BEST OR NONE!" SPINSTERHOOD IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY NEW ENGLAND.
Journal of Social History
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June 22, 2000|
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Reflecting on her single life, Catharine Sedgwick wrote in her diary: "I certainly think a happy marriage the happiest condition of human life ... [I]t is the high opinion of its capabilities which has perhaps kept me from adventuring in it." [1] This entry epitomizes the seemingly paradoxical connection, in practice, between the nineteenth-century idealization of marriage and the reluctance of many women to marry. Although Nancy Cott has made passing references to this connection, it has been largely overlooked by the literature on women and the family. [2] Spinsterhood has ...
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Burghley: William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I.(Book review)
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On this day.
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; ...day: 1788: New York became the capital of the New United States of America; 1520: Birth of statesman William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley; 1759: General James Wolfe killed defeating the French on the Plains of Abraham in the Battle of Quebec...
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HOUSE OF LORDS: BORN TO RULE?
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; ...creation Polonius in Hamlet, William Cecil, below, 1st Baron Burghley (1520-1598), was hailed...Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, right, Marquess of Salisbury...Robert Edgar Algernon Cecil, 1st Viscount, (1864-1958...
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Patronage, Culture and Power: The Early Cecils 1558-1612.(Book review)
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; ...story, the Cecil family. Thanks...political career of William Cecil, who built...and created 1st Baron of Burghley in 1571, while...Sir Thomas Cecil and Sir Robert...Burghley and 1st Earl of Exeter...Cecils--Sir William and his sons...
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Lord Burghley's silver spice dishes.(Cover Story)
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; ...s uncle, William Montagu of...Treasurer, Sir William Cecil, the first Lord Burghley (1520-98...6 OMITTED] Cecil was one of...exterior of Burghley House is a...Hertfordshire, which Baron Waldstein visited...Thomas, 1st Earl of Exeter...
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