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Amy Froide, The Conversation

When England taxed bachelors to address its declining birth rate

Anywhere from 13% to 27% of English people born between 1575 and 1700 never married.

Amy Froide, The Conversation
· Aug 15, 2021 · 11:30 pm
From ‘spinster’ and ‘old maid’ to ‘self-partnered’: How the single woman has been seen over the ages

Unmarried women of a certain age have always alarmed society. Even in the 21st century, is there some unease over being past your 20s and still single?

Amy Froide, The Conversation
· Dec 03, 2019 · 11:30 pm
Oscars 2019: Meet the women who inspired ‘The Favourite’, including the era’s Warren Buffett

Yorgos Lanthimos’s Academy Award-nominated film stars Olivia Colman as Queen Anne and Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone as courtiers who compete for her attention.

Amy Froide, The Conversation
· Feb 24, 2019 · 03:30 pm