OPEN POST: Why Are You a Spinster?

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Picture it: London, 1889. A magazine called "Tit-Bits" (for real!) introduces a contest to its single female readers, asking them to answer a very provocative question for the time: Why Am I A Spinster? The prize? Five shillings split among 21 winners. Cha-ching!

Now, single hors of the Manor, before I pose the same question to you and ask, "Why are YOU a spinster?", let's have a look at some of these inspiring answers from the past:














Now, DO tell, Peckersluts, Why ARE you a spinster?

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