The shelf · Australia
Does She I Dare Not Name hold up?
She I Dare Not Name: A Spinster's Meditations on Life, by Donna Ward (2020)
A memoir and essay by an Australian writer who never married, on a society built around couples.
The short answer
Its argument stands; its count of Australians living alone is out of date.
The claims, checked
Two million Australians live alone.
Outdated The Bureau estimates 2.6 million people living alone in 2021.
Evidence: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2024