Bachelor Kisses so achingly sweet as Bachelor Kisses are we forced to notice how hollow most contemporary pop rings." Elsewhere in NME, Biba Kopf called the song, "an affecting male rejoinder to "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend". Bachelor Kisses "Bachelor Kisses" was the second single released by The Go-Betweens from their third album, "Spring Hill Fair". It was released in August 1984 by Sire Records. In the UK a 12" single was also released on Sire. "Bachelor Kisses" was the Go-Betweens' first real attempt at a commercial single. Forster later said of the song, "Grant wrote this. It sounded like a
Spinster family caretaker for their family of origin or for a married sibling's children, "poor relations" who would work "to earn their keep" as nannies or unpaid domestics. For example, being a governess was the fate expected by rejected titular orphan in Charlotte Brontë's novel "Jane Eyre" (1847); Eyre retained that status until the man she loved was widowed and available. A common theme in the fiction writings of author/poet Sandra Cisneros is marital disillusionment; for example. in the poem "Old Maids" (1994). In the Charles Dickens' classic "Great Expectations", the primary antagonist is Miss Havisham, a spinster embittered by being