Jane Austen - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 07:57:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Jane Austen - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Percentage of unmarried women in England (1536-1741) https://historylab.es/percentage-of-unmarried-women-in-england-1536-1741/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=percentage-of-unmarried-women-in-england-1536-1741 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:31 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/porcentaje-de-mujeres-solteras-en-inglaterra-1536-1741/ Single women in England according to the stereotypes of the spinning wheel

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]]> The evolution of unmarried women in England is explained by the trades they performed. In the English case, the spinner’s trade was associated with female spinsterhood, which reached its peak during the 17th century. Thus, in a context where the formation of marriage was seen as the goal of any woman, the work of the spinner, associated with spinsterhood, began to have negative considerations, thus creating a stereotype of the woman who carried out this activity.

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