“...As marriage was woman's business, unmarried women, though doubtless unfortunate, must simply be considered as business failures: harsh, doubtless, but in tune with the sink-or-swim capitalist times.”
Ruth Brandon
Governess: The Lives and Times of the Real Jane Eyres
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