Throughout her career, Moorehead skillfully portrayed puritanical matrons, neurotic spinsters, possessive mothers, and comical secretaries. Born in Portland, Oregon, Prickett often portrayed maids, secretaries, busybodies, spinsters, and nosy neighbors. In Hollywood, Kemble-Cooper portrayed mostly aristocrats, spinsters and servants. This included blacks, spinsters, and widows. By the 1950s, movies had established the stereotype of librarians as "spinsters" and "eggheads". These unpopped kernels are known as "old maids" or "spinsters". Both Elinor and her sister died as spinsters. The daughters lived together as spinsters at 20 Viewforth Terrace. And passionate spinsters read Ethel M. Dell. The writer P.C. Hooft called 'fricadellen' a recipe for old spinsters. The Spillaholle takes the lazy spinsters away. Sheila Ortiz-Taylor continues to publish with Spinsters Ink. Spinsters have been a focus of attention from the media and mainstream culture for centuries. And of course a generous allowance of sharp old spinsters. They are then believed to be spinsters.