Sketches Of The Fair Sex by Anonymous LibriVox
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Sketches of the fair sex, in all parts of the world. To which are added rules for determining the precise figure, the degree of beauty, the habits, and the age of women, notwithstanding the aids and disguise of dress.
It is our design to present a pleasing and interesting miscellany, which will serve to beguile the leisure hour, and will at the same time couple instruction with amusement. We have used but little method in the arrangement: Choosing rather to furnish the reader with a rich profusion of narratives and anecdotes, all tending to illustrate the FEMALE CHARACTER, to display its delicacy, its sweetness, its gentle or sometimes heroic virtues, its amiable weaknesses, and strange defects—than to attempt an accurate analysis of the hardest subject man ever attempted to master, viz—WOMAN. (Summary from the book)
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01 - IN THE FOLLOWING PAGES. THE FIRST WOMAN, AND HER ANTEDILUVIAN DESCENDANTS. WOMAN IN THE PATRIARCHAL AGES. WOMEN OF ANCIENT EGYPT. MODERN EGYPTIAN WOMEN. PERSIAN WOMEN.
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03 - ROMAN WOMEN. LAWS AND CUSTOMS RESPECTING THE ROMAN WOMEN.
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06 - GREAT ENTERPRISES OF WOMEN IN THE TIMES OF CHIVALRY. OTHER PARTICULARS RESPECTING FEMALES DURING THE AGE OF CHIVALRY.