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Sketches of the Fair Sex

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  1. 1Note
  2. 2Epigraph
  3. 3Epigraph
  4. 4The First Woman, and Her Antediluvian Descendants
  5. 5Woman in the Patriarchal Ages
  6. 6Women of Ancient Egypt
  7. 7Modern Egyptian Women
  8. 8Persian Women
  9. 9Grecian Women
  10. 10Grecian Courtezans
  11. 11Roman Women
  12. 12Laws and Customs Respecting the Roman Women
  13. 13Woman in Savage Life
  14. 14Eastern Women
  15. 15Chinese Woman
  16. 16African Women
  17. 17Great Enterprises of Women in the Times of Chivalry
  18. 18Other Particulars Respecting Females During the Age of Chivalry
  19. 19French Women
  20. 20Italian Women
  21. 21Spanish Women
  22. 22English Women
  23. 23Russian Women
  24. 24The Idea of Female Inferiority
  25. 25Female Simplicity
  26. 26The Mild Magnanimity of Women
  27. 27Female Delicacy
  28. 28Influence of Female Society
  29. 29Monastic Life
  30. 30Degrees of Sentimental Attachment at Different Periods
  31. 31German Women
  32. 32A View of Matrimony in Three Different Lights
  33. 33Betrothing and Marriage
  34. 34Female Friendship
  35. 35On the Choice of a Husband
  36. 36A Letter to a New Married Man
  37. 37Garrick’s Advice to Married Ladies
  38. 38Origin of Nunneries
  39. 39Description of the Great Convent at Ajuda in Rio Janerio
  40. 40Ceremony of the Initiation of a Nun
  41. 41Wedded Love Is Infinitely Preferable to Variety
  42. 42Italian Debauchery
  43. 43Naked Fakiers
  44. 44Mahometan Plurality of Wives
  45. 45Women of Otaheite
  46. 46Crim. Con. of Claudius and Pompeia
  47. 47A Word to a Very Nice Class of Ladies
  48. 48Custom in the Mogul Empire
  49. 49Custom of the Muscovites
  50. 50Sale of Children to Purchase Wives
  51. 51Polygamy and Concubinage
  52. 52Eunuchs
  53. 53Girls Sold at Auction
  54. 54Sale of a Wife
  55. 55Punishment of Adultery
  56. 56Anecdote of Cæsar
  57. 57Power of Marrying
  58. 58Celibacy of the Clergy
  59. 59Desperate Act of Euthira
  60. 60Luxurious Dress of the Grecian Ladies
  61. 61Grecian Courtship
  62. 62Power of Philtres and Charms
  63. 63Eastern Courtship
  64. 64Long Hair of Saxons and Danes
  65. 65St. Valentine’s Day
  66. 66Courts of Love
  67. 67Immodesty at Babylon
  68. 68Indecency at Adrianople
  69. 69Ancient Swedish Courtship
  70. 70Lapland and Greenland Lady
  71. 71Education of Women in Asia and Africa
  72. 72Religious Festivals of the Greeks
  73. 73The Deaths of Lucretia and Virginia
  74. 74On Looking at the Picture of a Beautiful Female
  75. 75Women, Art of Determining the Figure, Beauty, Habits, and the Age of
  76. 76Of Figure
  77. 77Of Beauty
  78. 78Of Mind
  79. 79Of Habits
  80. 80Of Age
  81. 81The Ideal of Female Beauty; or a Description of the Famous Statue o…
  82. 82The First Kiss of Love
  83. 83The Death of Cleopatra
  84. 84An Essay on Matrimony

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