What did the term “Spinsters” refer to after WW1?
SPINSTER is a term used mainly to describe a woman who is beyond the normal age of marriage. It might be used to describe a woman who was engaged to a man who went off to fight in the war but who never returned home. She the SPINSTER remained loyal to him, wore his ring and never married. The word SPINSTER is an unmarried woman, a Miss, if you like. When a woman loses her husband in war or dies, she then becomes a WIDOW. In proper English a man who’s wife dies is called a WIDOWER – however, these days the word WIDOW is most often applied to both men and women, married but who’s partner has died or been killed in battle and etc. There were unfortunately many hundreds of men left horribly disfigured by their war wounds. Some were so horribly brain damaged as never to fully recover to be men ever again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS1dO0JC2… We will remember them. Their names live forever.
