# Woman in the golden ages

Author: Mason, Amelia Gere, 1831-1923

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67405

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Woman+in+the+golden+ages+Mason&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

In this series of detached essays I have tried to gather and group the most salient and essential facts relating to the character, position, and intellectual attainments of women in the great ages of the world. It is not an easy matter to trace with any exactness the lives of women of classic times, as they were largely ignored by men who chronicled events. If the historians gave them any place at all, it was an insignificant one, concerning only their relations to men, and they were more inclined to sing the praises of those who ministered to masculine caprices than of those distinguished for any merit whatever. There were exceptions in the cases of a few women of very remarkable gifts;...

## Chapters

- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/woman-in-the-golden-ages-67405/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/woman-in-the-golden-ages-67405/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/woman-in-the-golden-ages-67405/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/woman-in-the-golden-ages-67405/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/woman-in-the-golden-ages-67405/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/woman-in-the-golden-ages-67405/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/woman-in-the-golden-ages-67405/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/woman-in-the-golden-ages-67405/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Part 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/woman-in-the-golden-ages-67405/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/woman-in-the-golden-ages-67405/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/woman-in-the-golden-ages-67405/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/woman-in-the-golden-ages-67405/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/woman-in-the-golden-ages-67405/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/woman-in-the-golden-ages-67405/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Part 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/woman-in-the-golden-ages-67405/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/woman-in-the-golden-ages-67405/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/woman-in-the-golden-ages-67405/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/woman-in-the-golden-ages-67405/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/woman-in-the-golden-ages-67405/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/woman-in-the-golden-ages-67405/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/woman-in-the-golden-ages-67405/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/woman-in-the-golden-ages-67405/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Part 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/woman-in-the-golden-ages-67405/chapters/23/index.md)