False Widow: Difference between revisions

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* Fawn at the beginning of ''[[The Sharing Knife]]'' by [[Lois McMaster Bujold]] claims to be a "grass widow" to explain why she is pregnant and alone. Dag delicately inquires if she knows what a grass widow is. Fawn had thought it meant a woman recently widowed; it really meant a woman in her exact situation, never married but claiming to be widowed in order to escape the stigma of unwed pregnancy.

* A male version in an episode of ''[[CSI: Miami]]'' had the Villains of the week being a group of con artists posing {{spoiler|as a widower and his two children (actually a 30 something married couple) murdering a man in order to use his wife as a means to get into a yacht club and steal gold from another of its members}}.

* One of the earliest examples is Helen Graham from Anne Bronte's ''[[The Tenant of Wildfell Hall]]''. She's escaping a horrible marriage.