//=time() ?>
A Proposed #18thCentury Tax Bill Targets 27-Year-Old Spinsters...And Their Cats! https://t.co/aPQif6Aw1J'
'those women who refused offers of marriage in order to remain independent or to keep control of their own money and property.'
The spinster carries a chatelaine at her waist showing a man from a bygone era - possibly a lover from long ago.
Suggesting she is a relic from times when the Piazza in Covent Garden was highly fashionable before it was taken over by taverns and coffee houses! #18thcentury
Under the heading of What Were They Thinking: a proposed tax on spinsters on @MimiMatthewsEsq blog. https://t.co/iavKhPKNta #Georgian
Great #art from @Art_Authority: Poster advertising 'The Spinster's Scrip' by Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent
Most think Mary Cassatt painted mothers and children because she was a spinster. But she missed her own mother.