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Amy Froide, The Conversation
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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
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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
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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
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