Not necessarily: there are plenty of historical examples of women who were expected to stay at home and keep the place running (even if it might be in some rather more ladylike way like looking after the dairy side of things) rather than getting married - the 'designated daughter at home' syndrome, though in Rowan's case (and probably a lot of the historical ones) she is far from being the downtrodden drudge this implies - in many cases it probably was an ideology of family duty (cf Ethel May in Yonge's The Daisy Chain) rather than lack of alternatives.
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Date: 2005-08-31 06:00 pm (UTC)