Word: spinsterism
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...Miss Marple once told her friend Elspeth McGillicuddy during a horticultural discussion, "Peonies are unaccountable. Either they do- or they don't do. But if they do establish themselves, they are with you for life." The old spinster apparently became like the peonies in her garden...
When Townsend realizes that the girl will be disinherited if she marries, he jilts her. After the doctor dies, Townsend renews his suit, and Catherine, now grown into a confirmed, cynical spinster, pretends to accede in order to have the revenge of a woman scorned and to jilt him in turn...
...Dolphin", "Sheepdog" or just "Nessa"; her brother Thoby was "Gribbs", "Grim", "Herbert", or "Thobs"; and she signed herself just about anything: "Billy Goat", "Goat", "Goatus Esq.", "Wallaby", "Kangaroo", "Apes", and so forth. Over half the letters in this volume are addressed to Violet Dickinson, a six foot two spinster aunt who seems to have served as Virginia's foster mother. In these, Virginia's childishness reaches its pack...
...feeling I was dreaming up a boy's novel," recalled Art Scholar Henri Defoer, head custodian of the Archiepiscopal Museum in Utrecht. Two years ago, while visiting an elderly spinster in eastern Holland to examine a holy statue, he spotted something of greater interest-a painting that hinted of the early Rembrandt. Defoer spent the next two years in research trying to verify his discovery. This week he jubilantly announced his museum's acquisition of Rembrandt's Doop van de Kamerling (The Baptism of the Moor), the artist's second oldest known work. Painted...
...elderly, frail spinster Jane Marple who remained her favorite detective. Gifted with as many "little grey cells" as Poirot, Miss Marple also possesses an unpretentious village wisdom and homey psychological insight that make her Agatha Christie's alter ego. Although Poirot is gone, Marple survives for at least a while longer An unpublished manuscript in which she too passes on is locked in the Christie vault, along with the ultimate whodunit, Dame Agatha's autobiography By refusing to publish it during her lifetime, Dame Agatha has assured herself one last, suspenseful hurrah...