What did Victorian journalists mean by terming certain women \surplus\or \redundant\ ?

A. They remained unmarried due to a population imbalance between the sexes.
B. Their willingness to work for low wages resulted in a surplus of textiles, causing them to drop in price.
C. They were women writers who wrote frequently about similar topics.
D. They prostituted themselves as a way to make money in a market economy that didn’t provide extensive job opportunities to women.