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Title: Women of England, Volume 9 (of 10)

Author: Burleigh James Bartlett

Release Date: May 8, 2010 [EBook #32299]

Language: English

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WOMAN

IN ALL AGES AND IN ALL COUNTRIES

WOMEN OF ENGLAND

BY

BARTLETT BURLEIGH JAMES, PH.D.

OF WESTERN MARYLAND COLLEGE

THE RITTENHOUSE PRESS

PHILADELPHIA

Copyrighted at Washington and entered at Stationers' Hall, London,

1907--1908

and Printed by arrangement with George Barrie's Sons.

PRINTED IN U.S.A.

CONTENTS

PREFACE

Chapter I. The Women of Prehistoric Britain

Chapter II. The Women of Ancient Britain

Chapter III. The Women of the Anglo-Saxons

Chapter IV. The Women of the Anglo-Normans

Chapter V. The Women of the Middle Ages

Chapter VI. The Women of the Manors

Chapter VII. The Women of the Monasteries

Chapter VIII. The Women of the Industrial Classes

Chapter IX. The Women of the Transition Period

Chapter X. The Women of the Tudor Period

Chapter XI. Women of the Commonwealth Period

Chapter XII. The Women of the Restoration Period

Chapter XIII. The Women of the Eighteenth Century

Chapter XIV. The Women of the Nineteenth Century

Chapter XV. The Women of Scotland and Ireland

PREFACE

It is no slight task to follow out the windings of a single thread
in the infinite weave of society and by loosing it from the general
mesh to show how dependent is the pattern of life and custom upon its
presence. Such a task was presented in the endeavor to trace along
from remotest times to the present day the influence of woman upon
the life and character, the efforts and ideals, of that race which
has come to be known as English, although this name may