unmarried woman

“Disturbing that stereotype was the head of the New York chapter of NOW, Ti-Grace Atkinson, a twenty-nine-year-old unmarried woman from Louisiana who, it was unfailingly pointed out in every newspaper account, was "attractive," "good-looking," or, in the words of The New York Times, "softly sexy.”

1968 the Year that Rocked the World

“Unseemly as sitting this way was, unsettling as it felt to be resting against a man, wrong as she knew that was for an unmarried woman to be doing, there was something about it that didn't feel unseemly at all.”

Moon Shadow

“An unmarried woman in France can not hope to be a social leader; and to be a social leader was the one ambition of Madame De Stael.”

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great

“The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in mind and in spirit.”

A Manual of Etiquette with Hints on Politeness and Good Breeding

“(D.S. H. 8250, Path. 909) an unmarried woman without occupation, two attacks of "melancholia" at 36, and 40.”

The Journal of Abnormal Psychology