Possible Clues:

• Southern playwright embracing singular woman like Miss Havisham
• One�s without issue and not married in church
• Unmarried older woman
• Playwright embracing one son after another, and a single female
• Southern dramatist engaging second old maid, perhaps
• … she's had no match as a PR exponent?
• One would just miss her as she starts to get around
• Single woman, nurse, one overcome by fix
• May she actively resist new partners at the outset?
• Miss a jaunt the rest went off on