A case of acquired hymen obstruction

EG, a 30-year-old maid, contacted the author on January 2, 1891. She enjoyed generally good health; she began to menstruate at the age of 20, but the regulations always appeared incorrectly, with interruptions sometimes for several months, were scarce, lasted one day and were accompanied by pain. In June 1890, she was treated for a specific (? Ref.) Throat disease and papular rash. Shortly before that, after coitus'a had some kind of discharge from the vagina and a swelling appeared in the groin. Now she complains of urination disorder and abdominal enlargement.

Productivity, Fertility and the Romantic ‘Old Maid’

William Hayley's Essay on Old Maids (1785, 1793) bafflingly constructs an image of the old maid from libertine fantasy, learned wit, pro-feminine critique and feminist scholarship. This essay traces some of these strands in later treatments of female sexuality and ageing in writing by Hannah More and Joanna Southcott, suggesting ways in which shifting attitudes to fertility enable new accounts of the female body. It argues that the terms of Hayley's Essay constrain later attempts to shift the debate. Whilst More attempts to escape the representation of the ageing body, the topic of female writing allows a renewed focus on reproduction.

‘Old Men – and Women – May be Permitted to Speak Long’: Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Voice of Experience

This article explores the complications involved in speaking from a position of seniority and experience in the life and work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It goes beyond the familiar caricatures of Coleridge as a garrulous old man, perpetuated by the likes of J. B. Priestley and Max Beerbohm, to address his self-consciousness in securing a listener, drawing comparisons and contrasts with the ‘Old Maid’ Miss Bates in Jane Austen's Emma. The article then pursues the theme of listening to elderly voices in verse from different periods of Coleridge's career including ‘The Old Man of the Alps’, ‘Youth and Age’ and ‘An Old Man's Sigh’. It argues that the biological affects of ageing on the voice often need to be understood as adjustments or compensatory behaviours arising from specific social situations.

Perkawinan Lansia di Kecamatan Socah Kabupaten Bangkalan Perspektif Maqasid Al-Shari’ah

This is a field research that analyzes the marriage suitability of elderly people in Socah, Bangkalan under the theory of maqasid shari'ah. The elderly marriage is officially conducted at KUA (Religious Affairs Office) of Socah for different reasons, namely: on the basis of coercion to the bride so that the family relationship does not break up, resulting in reluctance, on the basis of family compassion and encouragement. It is because the bride is an old maid and is his own niece on the basis of mutual love, avoid immorality and seek peace of life in old age. All couples can fulfill both material and non-material obligations, although not as perfect as a young couple. Some husbands do not want to have children for fear of not being able to support even though in this case the wife really wants it. Thus, the marriage of the elderly in Socah is sometimes appropriate and not in accordance with the maqasid shari'ah. The suitability in question is in terms of hifz al-din (protecting religion) and hifz al-mal (protecting wealth), while its inadequacies are in terms of hifz al-nasl (protecting offspring), because of their desires to have offspring and in terms of hifz al-nafs (protecting soul), and hifz al-'aql (protecting ratio), because of differences in descent have the negative effect on family disharmony that can interfere with the soul and mind. In this case, an intense dialogue and approach must be made to the couple to be more open and understand each other.

Fran Mažuranić u djelu Antuna Gustava Matoša

The aim of the paper is to extract texts that point to the influence of Mažuranić’s work in shaping of Matoš’s prose. There will be interpretations of the novels in which Matoš creates characters according to Fran Mažuranić: Pereci, friški pereci..., Put u Ništa, Bura u tišini, in the context of Matoš’s contribution to the return of this writer to the mainstream of Croatian literature after a long silence. Some characters will be analyzed: Orlović and Marjanović in Putu u Ništa where Matoš in portraying the figures highlights the significance of Mažuranić’s work in Croatian literature, especially the influence on the prose in Croatian modernity, later emphasized by Croatian literary critics after the second edition of Lišće (Lišće i druga djela,, 1916). In this context, the criticisms and texts which used Matoš’s novels for the reconstruction of Mažuranić’s life (Wenzelides and Benešić et al.) will be highlighted. On the other hand, some motivational incentives of Mažuranić - Matoš will be emphasized (eg. the dream motif in Mažuranić’s novel I o grm i o trn in the first Matoš’s publishing of Moć savjesti, and the elaboration of the theme of “old maid” in Mažuranić and Matoš’s feuilleton Usiđelica and others).

Theatrical, Periodical, Authorial: Frances Brooke’s Old Maid (1755–1756)

Manushag Powell revisits Frances Brooke’s Old Maid (1755-6) to highlight its understudied interest in theatrical performance and criticism. Brooke’s interest in the drama was lifelong, encompassing not only personal ambitions that were partly thwarted by her famous quarrels with David Garrick over her Virginia and his King Lear, but also her friendship and eventual partnership with the powerful actress-manager Mary Ann Yates, who was also a close friend of fellow pioneering periodicalist Charlotte Lennox. Brooke’s interest in the theatre predated and reached far beyond Garrick’s involvement. Ultimately, the essay champions the radical ambitions of Brooke’s periodical writing and theatrical criticism, and both recognises and laments the fact that an alliance of female professional artistry could be enabled by the theatre, but not yet by periodical writing.