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“Married and Single Life” in Thoughts of Busy Girls, 1892
The role of marriage in a person’s life was being questioned in the Progressive Era, especially as it pertained to women in marriages. With more options available for supporting themselves financially, women were no longer required to marry in order to survive and could instead choose to stay single, or to marry for exclusively emotional reasons.