Category: History - British
A MEDIÆVAL MANOR-HOUSE. PAGE Domestic life in the Middle Ages--Interior of a manor-house-- Position and duties of the mistress--Household arrangements-- Dame Paston and her daughters--Lady Joan Berkeley--The lady of the castle in time of war--Lady Pelham’s defence of Pevensey...
Nature of the struggle--Position of Queen Henrietta Maria--Activity of women on both sides--Mrs. Hutchinson at Nottingham--Defence of Lathom House by the Countess of Derby--Lady...
36. CHAPTER X.Development of the arts in the seventeenth century--Introduction of women on the stage--Corruption of the period--Character of the drama--Wearing masks by spectators--The French...
24. CHAPTER V.Dominance of the Church in the Middle Ages--The Conventual System--Occupations of the Nuns--Power of the Abbesses--Disputes between Religious Houses and the Laity--Latitude allo...
37. CHAPTER I.Artificiality of eighteenth-century life--The _rôle_ of the middle-class woman--Scotch domestic life--The old maid--Admiration of foreigners for English women--English dress--Pu...
34. CHAPTER VIII.Religious life in the sixteenth century--Religion the great motive-power--The Lollard persecutions--Protestant martyrs of the sixteenth century--Anne Askew--Women martyrs in the...
38. CHAPTER II.London society in the last century--Lord Chesterfield on taste--Coarse language of great ladies--The speculation mania among ladies--Narrowness of fashionable life--Manners and...
31. CHAPTER V.Puritan influence--Neglect of women’s education--The boarding-out system for girls--Sir Matthew Hale on the education of girls--Manners and customs--Diversions of great ladies--...
28. CHAPTER II.Revival of learning in the sixteenth century--Attitude of the nobility towards Letters and Arts--No age so productive of learned ladies--The Tudor princesses and Lady Jane Grey-...
30. CHAPTER IV.Changes in domestic life--Lady Elizabeth Howard’s household at Naworth Castle--The Countess of Sunderland--The Belvoir Castle family--The Countess of Salisbury’s suit--The Count...
23. CHAPTER IV.The industrial equality of former days--Women as members of Gilds--Restrictions on trade--Fitness of girls for industrial occupations--Women as watchmakers: Sir John Bennett’s o...
25. CHAPTER VI.It has come to be regarded almost as truism that women are more religious than men, that they are, by nature, more devout, more susceptible to spiritual influences. If Matthew A...
20. CHAPTER I.Domestic life in the Middle Ages--Interior of a manor-house--Position and duties of the mistress--Household arrangements--Dame Paston and her daughters--Lady Joan Berkeley--The...
27. CHAPTER I.Effect on Women of the fall of Feudalism--Characteristics of Tudor England--Observations of foreigners on Englishwomen--Greater liberty allowed to women in England than on the C...
35. CHAPTER IX.Universality of the belief in witchcraft--Persecution of witches in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries--Attitude of the Puritans--Origin of the witch--First use of the term...
32. CHAPTER VI.The city dames during the Civil War--They petition Parliament for peace--Reception of the petition--The military called out--Petition from tradesmen’s wives for redress of griev...
22. CHAPTER III.Until the development of England as a manufacturing country, the strength and importance of the middle classes were not felt. They came into power contemporaneously with the gro...
29. CHAPTER III.After the sixteenth century the lamp of learning flickered a good deal. The air was very unsteady; winds came blowing from all quarters. There was the adverse gale of the Civil...
26. CHAPTER VII.Almsgiving at the monasteries--Charity dispensed by private families--Bequests of ladies for the relief of the poor--Action of the Church--Change in the conception of the duty o...
21. CHAPTER II.Learned ladies in Saxon times--Education of women in the Middle Ages--The rise of Grammar Schools--Want of provision for girls--Convent schools--Improvement of education in the...
17. CHAPTER X.Development of the arts in the seventeenth century--Introduction of women on the stage--Corruption of the period-- Character of the drama--Wearing masks by spectators-- The Fren...
14. CHAPTER VII.Nature of the struggle--Position of Queen Henrietta Maria-- Activity of women on both sides--Mrs. Hutchinson at Nottingham--Defence of Lathom House by the Countess of Derby--Lad...
19. CHAPTER II.London society in the last century--Lord Chesterfield on taste-- Coarse language of great ladies--The speculation mania among ladies--Narrowness of fashionable life--Manners and...
4. CHAPTER IV.The industrial equality of former days--Women as members of Gilds--Restrictions on trade--Fitness of girls for industrial occupations--Women as watchmakers: Sir John Bennett’s o...
18. CHAPTER I.Artificiality of eighteenth-century life--The _rôle_ of the middle-class woman--Scotch domestic life--The old maid-- Admiration of foreigners for English women--English dress--...
15. CHAPTER VIII.Religious life in the sixteenth century--Religion the great motive-power--The Lollard persecutions--Protestant martyrs of the sixteenth century--Anne Askew--Women martyrs in the...
9. CHAPTER II.Revival of learning in the sixteenth century--Attitude of the nobility towards Letters and Arts--No age so productive of learned ladies--The Tudor princesses and Lady Jane Grey-...
12. CHAPTER V.Puritan influence--Neglect of women’s education--The boarding-out system for girls--Sir Matthew Hale on the education of girls--Manners and customs--Diversions of great ladies--...
7. CHAPTER VII.Almsgiving at the monasteries--Charity dispensed by private families--Bequests of ladies for the relief of the poor-- Action of the Church--Change in the conception of the duty...
13. CHAPTER VI.The city dames during the Civil War--They petition Parliament for peace--Reception of the petition--The military called out--Petition from tradesmen’s wives for redress of griev...
1. CHAPTER I.A MEDIÆVAL MANOR-HOUSE. PAGE Domestic life in the Middle Ages--Interior of a manor-house-- Position and duties of the mistress--Household arrangements-- Dame Paston and her daug...
2. CHAPTER II.Learned ladies in Saxon times--Education of women in the Middle Ages--The rise of Grammar Schools--Want of provision for girls--Convent schools--Improvement of education in the...
11. CHAPTER IV.Changes in domestic life--Lady Elizabeth Howard’s household at Naworth Castle--The Countess of Sunderland--The Belvoir Castle family--The Countess of Salisbury’s suit--The Count...
8. CHAPTER I.Effect on women of the fall of Feudalism--Characteristics of Tudor England--Observations of foreigners on English-women-- Greater liberty allowed to women in England than on the...
5. CHAPTER V.Dominance of the Church in the Middle Ages--The Conventual System--Occupations of the Nuns--Power of the Abbesses-- Disputes between Religious Houses and the Laity--Latitude all...
3. CHAPTER III.The Feudal System unfavourable to the development of the middle classes--Subjection of women under Feudalism--Tyranny of feudal lords--Power of the Church--Rise of Commerce-- Ma...
10. CHAPTER III.16. CHAPTER IX.Universality of the belief in witchcraft--Persecution of witches in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries--Attitude of the Puritans--Origin of the witch--First use of the term...
6. CHAPTER VI.