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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 8 (search)
VIII.
maiden aunts.
That admirable patriot, John A. Andrew, the War Governor of Massachusetts, was emphatically a man of impulses, and he never used a phrase more impulsive and more questionable than when, in speaking of the single women of his own State, he characterized many of them as being anxious and aimless.
He did no nd really to lie not among single women, but among widows.
His figures are as follows, when he analyzes the whole into its parts:
Excess of single women in Massachusetts8,975
Excess of married women1,785
Excess of widowed women52,903
Excess of divorced women817
Total excess of women64,483
Deduct excess of men over women in te, which is always importing young women from beyond the borders.
The main discrepancy lies in the vast preponderance of widows over widowers, there being in Massachusetts 73,527 of the former, and only 20,624 of the latter.
This, again, is due to several causes: the great annual losses of life in seaport towns, the factory syst
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 38 (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 48 (search)