![]() ![]() And may not young men die, as well as old Bap. So the word is with us a long time, love it or loathe it. maid is mine from all the world, By your firm promise Gremio is out. Wikipedia has a comprehensive article on spinsters – including an impressive list of famous spinsters such as Florence Nightingale, Queen Elizabeth I, Jane Austen, Harper Lee, and Emily Bronte.Īccording to erudite posters on the first use of spinster (from the Oxford English Dictionary) is 1362, the first use of it in the “old maid” sense is 1719. Lower class daughters certainly had plenty of jobs to do on the farm, in the home, or as servants. I suspect this only applied to women of a certain class. Great game that can be played quickly with a minimum of 2 players. ![]() The cards are great quality, nice and thick. Whoever is left with you know who at the end when all pairs are complete,loses. If it is a pair, put them both down to be discarded. Terry Deary’s excellent history books for kids “Horrible Histories” claim that in Tudor times, because Henry VIII had abolished the monasteries and convents, unmarried daughters had nowhere to go and would remain with parents, spinning – hence the term. Basically it is a version of the classic 'old maid' card game. Not exactly a feminist method of teaching young girls that we can have a complete life without necessarily having a romantic life-partner. I remember playing a card-game with my sister called “Old Maid” in my childhood where you had to avoid being left with the spinster card. It has come to have derogatory connotations of a woman past her “prime” and “left on the shelf”. This week’s word is spinster and it’s not one of my favourites. ![]()
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