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IN
ALL AGES AND NATIONS;
A COMPLETE AND AUTHENTIO
HISTORY OF THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS, CHARACTER AND CONDITION OF THE FEMALE SEX, IN CIV- ILIZED AND SAVAGE COUNTRIES,
From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time.
BY THOMAS L. NICHOLS.
NEW-YORK;
H. LONG & BROTHER,
43 Ann-street.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849,
BY THOMAS L. NICHOLS,
In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.
A. CUNNINGHAM,
PRINTER AND STEREOTYPER, 183 William-street, N. Y.
SUBJECT AND PLAN.-Superiority of the female sex; various social condi-
tions; anatomical and physiological peculiarities; characteristics of differ-
ent races
PART FIRST.
Pages 5-13
FEMALE BEAUTY.-What is beauty? Origin of the human race; beauty of
various races; power of beauty
PART SECOND.
15-20
FEMALE COSTUME.-Origin of dress; difference in the sexes; tastes of sava-
ges; costumes of Mahommedans-Chinese-Hindoos-French peasants—
English-Dutch-Northern Europe-Southern; fashionable costumes;
cosmetics, paint, and ornaments; corsets and bandages; modesty of
dress; early history of costume; Greek and Roman costumes; silk;
fashions of Central Europe; extravagance in the middle ages; vagaries
of fashion
21-38
FEMALE EDUCATION.-Opinions of female qualities; importance of female
education; female education in Ancient Egypt-Phoenicia-Persia-
Greece-Rome; erudition of Roman ladies; learned women of the middle
ages; succeeding ignorance; modern fashionable female education; Afri-
can boarding-schools-Mahommedan-Chinese; North American In-
dians; Virgins of the Sun; destiny of woman in America
PART FOURTH.
39-51
COURTSHIP.-Nature and origin; law, and exceptions; courting by proxy;
right of Hebrew widows; Hurons and Iroquois; origin of polygamy;
barbarous contests; beautiful customs of Greece; charms and conjura-
tions; Scandinavian women and poetry; Odin's advice to lovers; story
of Grymer; courting by combat; equal privileges; Indian customs;
Greenland maidens; Spanish lovers; Turkish gallantry; courtship in
freedom; curious customs in the United States; social reform,
52-72