They trolled never-married lady with hideous caricatures of absurdity, meanness and monstrosity (nothing rather passes the vitriol-filled Satyr Upon Old Maids, an anonymously created 1713 pamphlet decrying these “nasty, rank, rammy, dirty sluts”). So when the policy of Empire forged forward, women that cannot, or would not, procreate are written down as useless, or self-centered, or both. Whenever an 1851 census uncovered that certain byproduct associated with the Napoleonic battles and colonisation had been a generation of “excess” ladies checking within their many, some recommended taxing her funds, while some required these to feel forcefully emigrated. Continue reading “Why are more and more people deciding to become solitary?”