(I have not checked throughly all the links and I am not totally sure, what ever lies behind them, so don’t kill me. 🙂 )
Facts about Spinsterhood under My Blog:
Essays and Factual Information Elsewhere in The Net:
Wikipedia on Spinster
Language
World Wide Words: The word spinster will no longer be part of the British government’s vocabulary.
IULIA GRAD: Words and Women. An eligible bachelor vs. an eligible spinster.
The University of Michigan-Dearborn: English Language and Literature: Spinsters and Old Maids as Defined by the Victorian Age
History
Humanities Gateway, University of the West of England: Abstracts of Single Women in history years 1000-2000: Finland, Bulgaria, USA, Germany, Great Britain, France, Switzerland, Norway, Hungary, Australia, Ireland, India, New Zealand etc.
Spinsterhood During the The Victorian Era
The Early Modern Witch-Hunt by Steve Muhlberger (Little dark history: Victims were usually either Spinsters or Widows).
Other
the Scholars of Single Women Network
Spinster: An Evolving Stereotype Revealed Through Film by Deborah J. Mustard, in On-line publication of January 20, 2000, Journal of Media Psychology
BBC 2007: Single women ‘do less housework’
Life-style Choices and Practice Elsewhere:
Traditional
Sisters of silk: Hong Kong’s Chinese Amahs – Spinster sisterhoods.
The Beguines by Elizabeth T. Knuth
Modern
When The Ring Doens’t Fit.., by Psychology Today
The New York Times: Men. Are Women Better Off With Them, or Without Them? (Women’s health).
Sisterhood of solitaire traveling– Jane Ganahl
Home alone — and loving to own it -Jane Ganahl
No children, no apologies – Jane Ganahl
Unmarried Because They Value Marriage By Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas
Resources Elsewhere:
Holla Back NYC – Against Street Harassers (sister sites all over US).
Unmarried America: Library One
Swwan – Single Working Women
10 things a single woman should know about retirement planning.
The Spinster Chronicles 