Spinster Book

Author(s)

• Olive Green
• Myrtle Reed

A cross between guidebook and social commentary, The Spinster Book gives clever and humorous insights on topics such as courting, handling men and women, love letters, marriage and spinsterhood. (Summary by Kristin Hughes)

1. Notes on Men
2. Concerning Women
3. The Philosophy of Love
4. The Lost Art of Courtship
5. The Natural History of Proposals
6. Love Letters: Old and New
7. An Inquiry into Marriage
8. The Physiology of Vanity
9. Widowers and Widows
10. The Consolations of Spinsterhood