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The Austrian Empress. Viennese Waists. London small-sized Corsets. Correspondence of _The Queen_ and the _Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine_. Lady Morton. Figure-training. Corsets for Young Girls. Early use of well-constructed Corsets. The Boarding-School and the Corset. Letters in praise of tight-lacing. Defence of the Crinoline and the Corset. The Venus de Medici. Fashionably-dressed Statue. Clumsy Figures. Letter from a Tight-lacer. A Young Baronet. A Family Man Pages 165 to 186