It’s quite a bit older than that. 1800s, I believe? A “spinster” was a women who got a job spinning/weaving fabric, which was one of the few jobs women were allowed at the time, and they were paid for it! Very well, iirc.
So a woman earning her own income and able to support herself, not being required to marry in order to live comfortably.
Wasn’t spinster some old school slang in like the 1920s or something about women who didn’t settle down right away? Or am I hallucinating
It’s quite a bit older than that. 1800s, I believe? A “spinster” was a women who got a job spinning/weaving fabric, which was one of the few jobs women were allowed at the time, and they were paid for it! Very well, iirc.
So a woman earning her own income and able to support herself, not being required to marry in order to live comfortably.