"Bachelorism" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... piece was a satire on certain members who were getting very much into the way of joking on the worn-out subjects of matrimony and old maid and old bachelorism. I therefore wrote a set of legislative enactments purporting to be from the ladies of the society, forbidding all such allusions in future. It made some sport at the time. I try not to be personal, and to be courteous, ...
— The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe • Charles Edward Stowe |
