Word: spinsterism
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...fact Leo's intellectual life was almost wholly given up to a prolonged self-analysis on Freudian lines. He diagnosed a big part of his neurosis as a "pariah complex," and for the last 25 years of his life he tended his complex as lovingly as a housebound spinster caring for a windowful of potted plants...
When she died a spinster of 55 in 1886 only five of her poems had been published, all anonymously. But there were well over a thousand more scattered among friends and relatives and in the 40 little booklets in her bureau...
Mercer's Maidens. In a negative way the emigrants influenced the New England they deserted, for by stripping their home states of cash and customers they left a lot of the stay-at-homes out of work. The New England spinster, not always old and homely, was also a product of the exodus of Yankee men. The thought of all those girls back East going to waste drove western bachelors wild, made them plead for someone "to bring a few spareribs to [the western] market." Finally a personable young bachelor named Asa S. Mercer, first president of the brand...
Although nearly all of the poems have already been printed, study of the collection is likely to shed light on several problems of interest to both scholars and ordinary lovers of the New England spinster's poetry...
...plate of Common beans breaks social conventions. Diners conversed genially with people they had never eaten beans with before. And at one table a graying spinster pocketed all the sugar lumps; when a search ensued for coffee sweetening, she dug into her pockets, produced two handfuls of sugar, and grinned, "I took then for my horse...