Bachelor Girl

see also communal living

single girl murders, 227–31, 240–41

“Singleness of Heart” (Katz), 16

single parents, 222, 223, 235

singles bars, 222, 229

singles industry, 220–21

singles scene, 219–22, 240

Single Woman, The (Rosenteur), 211

siren, 137–38

Sister Carrie (Dreiser), 8, 59

slacker spinsters, 256–59

“slumming,” 64, 73, 93–94

Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll, 30, 36

smoking, 114–15, 116, 130, 132, 133, 134, 143, 158

Smollett, Tobias, 16–17

Southgate, Eliza, 25

Speck, Richard, 228

spieling, 88–89, 93, 128

spinsters, 9, 14–53, 56, 57, 105–6, 109, 110, 129, 135–36, 190, 197, 219

behavior required of, 23–24

courtesan training proposed for, 21

deportation proposed for, 20–21, 23, 32

Depression era and, 161–62

in early America, 21–25

in 1851 British census, 19–21

in 1855

U.S. census, 23

first appearance of, 15–16, 18

free labor provided by, 139, 186n

in industrial revolution, 18–21

as insane, 16, 29, 53

lesbians and, 11, 28–29

in literature, 14, 16–17, 19–20, 24, 48–53

maintaining contact among, 50

as widows-manque, 23n

work sought by, 18, 19–20, 23, 50

see also new spinsters; old maids

spinster stories, 50–52, 156–57, 262

Stanley, Henry Morton, 62

Stanley, Olga, 112

Stansell, Christine, 58, 71, 89

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 33

Steel, Dawn, 250

Steinem, Gloria, 210, 211, 213, 218, 235–37

Sterling, Claire Wellesley, 94

stock-market crash (1929), 147

Stoner, Lucy, 74

Storm, Gale, 196

stronger sex, women as, 172

Suckow, Ruth, 108–9, 163–64

suffrage movement, 74, 100, 114, 117

laws achieved by, 36, 45, 119, 126

political agitation in, 114, 173

Sullivan’s Travels, 155

Swanson, Gloria, 130

sweatshops, 58

syphilis, 68, 123

“Tabitha,” as name, 17

“Tale of Not So Flaming Youth, A” (Kirk), 134–35

tampons, 128, 218

Tarbell, Ida, 50, 115, 117

Tarkington, Booth, 102

tea dances, 120–21

telephone operators, 103n, 152

Temple, Shirley, 178

Terrible Honesty (Douglas), 127

Thackeray, William Makepeace, 20, 48

Thomas, M. Carey, 26

Thompson, Bertha “Boxcar Bertha,” 154

Thompson, Dorothy, 146n

Three on a Match, 158–59

Tompkins, Juliet Wilbor, 111–12, 145

Totenberg, Nina, 219

Toward a New Psychology of Women (Miller), 239

Traffic in Souls, 122–23

“transient bureaus,” 154

T. R. Baskin, 231–32

“treating,” 70–71, 88, 94, 135

Triangle Shirtwaist fire, 60

Trilby (Du Maurier), 110, 125

Trollope, Anthony, 48, 262

Trowmart Inn, 105–7

Truman, Harry, 175

tuberculosis, risk of, 136

Types from City Streets (Hapgood), 91

Ugly Girl Papers, The (Power), 69

University of Michigan, 194, 211–12

upper-class women, 117, 124

clothing of, 74–75

department stores and, 85

as domestic employers, 60–61

feminist, 109

muddy hems of, 74, 90

“slumming” by, 93–94

as spinsters, 18–19

urban sketch, 63–64

Ursuline religious order, 34–35

Valentine’s Day, 260

Van de Warker, Ely, 142