The woman’s appeal has maturity, a thing from the past (8)
I believe the answer is:
heritage
'a thing from the past' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.
'the woman's appeal has maturity' is the wordplay.
'the woman's' becomes 'her'.
'appeal' becomes 'it'.
'has' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'maturity' becomes 'age' (I've seen this before).
'her'+'it'+'age'='HERITAGE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for heritage that I've seen before include "Valued things passed down to us" , "Their age (anag.)" , "That which is passed down from ancestors" , "One comes into this" , "That which is passed down by tradition" .)