Does 妇人 mean wife or simply woman？ I've been trying to figure out a translation for "妇人“ from the story 《丈夫》 by 沈从文. He used 妇人to refer to women， but I'm not sure if  it is ironic that it also means "married women" an accident, or if at the time of writing 1933 妇人 just mean woman.

Ex sentence. 

于是这妇人就毁了
It usually means a female who is older than 30（I mean not a girl or a young woman） and married.