Why are spinsters always solving mysteries?
Contributors:
—Rosemary Cresswell, senior lecturer in global history at the University of Hull. Follow her on Twitter @RosieCresswell.
—Camilla Nelson, associate professor of writing at the University of Notre Dame Australia.
—Helen Parkinson
Further reading:
—A field guide to spinsters in English fiction
—'Surplus women': a legacy of World War One?
—Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men After the First World War by Virginia Nicholson.
—The Shadow of Marriage by Katherine Holden
—Unnatural Death by Dorothy L Sayers
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