Women in English Life from Mediæval to Modern Times, Vol. I
CHAPTER II.
THE GREAT LADY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
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 amusements--Difficulties of social intercourse--The founders of Almack’s Club--The passion for politics--Lady Mary Wortley Montagu on women’s training--Some traits of eighteenth-century life 333
PERIOD I.
_WOMEN IN THE DAYS OF FEUDALISM._
WOMEN IN ENGLISH LIFE.