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Sketches Of The Fair Sex

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)

Year of Publication: 1841Genres: Psychology , Humor

Running Time: 6 hours 06 minutes 43 seconds

#	Chapter Name
1	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. Colman Shew	16:38
2	02 - GRECIAN WOMEN. GRECIAN COURTEZANS. Lucy Perry	6:48
3	03 - ROMAN WOMEN. LAWS AND CUSTOMS RESPECTING THE ROMAN WOMEN. swade	13:53
4	04 - WOMEN IN SAVAGE LIFE. EASTERN WOMEN. Kalynda	12:55
5	05 - CHINESE WOMAN. AFRICAN WOMEN. Bellona Times	7:56
6	06 - GREAT ENTERPRISES OF WOMEN IN THE TIMES OF CHIVALRY. OTHER PARTICULARS RESPECTING FEMALES DURING THE AGE OF CHIVALRY. Bellona Times	13:18
7	07 - FRENCH WOMEN. ITALIAN WOMEN. Chloe	10:25
8	08 - SPANISH WOMEN. ENGLISH WOMEN. RUSSIAN WOMEN. swade	12:22
9	09 - THE IDEA OF FEMALE INFERIORITY. FEMALE SIMPLICITY. TriciaG	17:33
10	10 - THE MILD MAGNANIMITY OF WOMEN. FEMALE DELICACY. INFLUENCE OF FEMALE SOCIETY. edbucks	19:31
11	11 - MONASTIC LIFE. DEGREES OF SENTIMENTAL ATTACHMENT AT DIFFERENT PERIODS. edbucks	16:36
12	12 - GERMAN WOMEN. A VIEW OF MATRIMONY IN THREE DIFFERENT LIGHTS. BETROTHING AND MARRIAGE. Tim Ferreira	13:59
13	13 - FEMALE FRIENDSHIP. Terry Goodyer	6:18
14	14 - ON THE CHOICE OF A HUSBAND. Bellona Times	20:54
15	15 - A LETTER TO A NEW MARRIED MAN. GARRICK'S ADVICE TO MARRIED LADIES. TriciaG	9:31
16	16 - ORIGIN OF NUNNERIES. DESCRIPTION OF THE GREAT CONVENT AT AJUDA IN RIO JANERIO. CEREMONY OF THE INITIATION OF A NUN. Kalynda	9:11
17	17 - WEDDED LOVE IS INFINITELY PREFERABLE TO VARIETY. ITALIAN DEBAUCHERY. NAKED FAKIERS. MAHOMETAN PLURALITY OF WIVES. summerdaze	11:07
18	18 - WOMEN OF OTAHEITE. CRIM. CON. OF CLAUDIUS AND POMPEIA. A WORD TO A VERY NICE CLASS OF LADIES. summerdaze	9:35
19	19 - 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. TriciaG	15:59
20	20 - PUNISHMENT OF ADULTERY. ANECDOTE OF CÆSAR. POWER OF MARRYING. Kalynda	8:03
21	21 - CELIBACY OF CLERGY. DESPERATE ACT OF EUTHIRA. Randall Ryan	6:55
22	22 - LUXURIOUS DRESS OF GRECIAN LADIES. GRECIAN COURTSHIP. Terry Goodyer	6:06
23	23 - POWER OF PHILTRES AND CHARMS. EASTERN COURTSHIP. LONG HAIR OF SAXONS AND DANES. Nadine Eckert-Boulet	7:05
24	24 - ST. VALENTINE'S DAY. COURTS OF LOVE. IMMODESTY AT BABYLON. INDECENCY AT ADRIANOPLE. edbucks	8:06
25	25 - ANCIENT SWEDISH COURTSHIP. LAPLAND AND GREENLAND LADY. Terry Goodyer	5:38
26	26 - 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. Bellona Times	12:07
27	27 - ART OF DETERMINING THE PRECISE FIGURE, THE DEGREE OF BEAUTY, THE HABITS, AND THE AGE, OF WOMEN, NOTWITHSTANDING THE AIDS AND DISGUISES OF DRESS. Dirk Eichhorn	19:44
28	28 - 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. Demi Fair	16:48
29	29 - AN ESSAY ON MATRIMONY (Part 1) edbucks	16:17
30	30 - AN ESSAY ON MATRIMONY (Part 2) edbucks	15:25