Sketches Of The Fair Sex

by Anonymous

30 chapters6h 6mEnglish1841

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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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101 - 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.

998

202 - GRECIAN WOMEN. GRECIAN COURTEZANS.

408

303 - ROMAN WOMEN. LAWS AND CUSTOMS RESPECTING THE ROMAN WOMEN.

833

404 - WOMEN IN SAVAGE LIFE. EASTERN WOMEN.

775

505 - CHINESE WOMAN. AFRICAN WOMEN.

476

606 - GREAT ENTERPRISES OF WOMEN IN THE TIMES OF CHIVALRY. OTHER PARTICULARS RESPECTING FEMALES DURING THE AGE OF CHIVALRY.

798

707 - FRENCH WOMEN. ITALIAN WOMEN.

625

808 - SPANISH WOMEN. ENGLISH WOMEN. RUSSIAN WOMEN.

742

909 - THE IDEA OF FEMALE INFERIORITY. FEMALE SIMPLICITY.

1053

1010 - THE MILD MAGNANIMITY OF WOMEN. FEMALE DELICACY. INFLUENCE OF FEMALE SOCIETY.

1171

1111 - MONASTIC LIFE. DEGREES OF SENTIMENTAL ATTACHMENT AT DIFFERENT PERIODS.

996

1212 - GERMAN WOMEN. A VIEW OF MATRIMONY IN THREE DIFFERENT LIGHTS. BETROTHING AND MARRIAGE.

839

1313 - FEMALE FRIENDSHIP.

378

1414 - ON THE CHOICE OF A HUSBAND.

1254

1515 - A LETTER TO A NEW MARRIED MAN. GARRICK'S ADVICE TO MARRIED LADIES.

571

1616 - ORIGIN OF NUNNERIES. DESCRIPTION OF THE GREAT CONVENT AT AJUDA IN RIO JANERIO. CEREMONY OF THE INITIATION OF A NUN.

551

1717 - WEDDED LOVE IS INFINITELY PREFERABLE TO VARIETY. ITALIAN DEBAUCHERY. NAKED FAKIERS. MAHOMETAN PLURALITY OF WIVES.

667

1818 - WOMEN OF OTAHEITE. CRIM. CON. OF CLAUDIUS AND POMPEIA. A WORD TO A VERY NICE CLASS OF LADIES.

575

1919 - CUSTOM IN THE MOGHUL EMPIRE. CUSTOM OF THE MUSCOVITES. SALE OF CHILDREN TO PURCHASE WIVES. POLYGAMY AND CONCUBINAGE. EUNUCHS. GIRLS SOLD AT AUCTION. SALE OF A WIFE.

959

2020 - PUNISHMENT OF ADULTERY. ANECDOTE OF CÆSAR. POWER OF MARRYING.

483

2121 - CELIBACY OF CLERGY. DESPERATE ACT OF EUTHIRA.

415

2222 - LUXURIOUS DRESS OF GRECIAN LADIES. GRECIAN COURTSHIP.

366

2323 - POWER OF PHILTRES AND CHARMS. EASTERN COURTSHIP. LONG HAIR OF SAXONS AND DANES.

425

2424 - ST. VALENTINE'S DAY. COURTS OF LOVE. IMMODESTY AT BABYLON. INDECENCY AT ADRIANOPLE.

486

2525 - ANCIENT SWEDISH COURTSHIP. LAPLAND AND GREENLAND LADY.

338

2626 - EDUCATION OF WOMEN IN ASIA AND AFRICA. RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS OF THE GREEKS. THE DEATHS OF LUCRETIA AND VIRGINIA. ON LOOKING AT THE PICTURE OF A BEAUTIFUL FEMALE.

727

2727 - ART OF DETERMINING THE PRECISE FIGURE, THE DEGREE OF BEAUTY, THE HABITS, AND THE AGE, OF WOMEN, NOTWITHSTANDING THE AIDS AND DISGUISES OF DRESS.

1184

2828 - THE IDEAL OF FEMALE BEAUTY; OR A DESCRIPTION OF THE FAMOUS STATUE OF THE VENUS DE MEDICI. THE FIRST KISS OF LOVE. THE DEATH OF CLEOPATRA.

1008

2929 - AN ESSAY ON MATRIMONY (Part 1)

977

3030 - AN ESSAY ON MATRIMONY (Part 2)

925

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