Rebecca Traister Quote
Education pioneers including Horace Mann and the never-married Catharine Beecher explicitly conceived of teaching as a job for spinsters, an occupation that could ease the stigma of being unwed27 and permit unmarried women to nurture young children and thus fulfill their domestic calling, even without offspring of their own.
Rebecca Traister
Education pioneers including Horace Mann and the never-married Catharine Beecher explicitly conceived of teaching as a job for spinsters, an occupation that could ease the stigma of being unwed27 and permit unmarried women to nurture young children and thus fulfill their domestic calling, even without offspring of their own.