A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 1 (of 2)

A DECADE OF ITALIAN WOMEN.
VITTORIA COLONNA.
From an Original Painting in the Colonna Gallery at Rome

BY T. ADOLPHUS TROLLOPE, AUTHOR OF THE GIRLHOOD OF CATHERINE DE' MEDICI.
IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I.

LONDON: RADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.

The degree in which any social system has succeeded in ascertaining woman's proper position, and in putting her into it, will be a very accurate test of the progress it has made in civilisation. And the very general and growing conviction, that our own social arrangements, as they exist at present, have not attained any satisfactory measure of success in this respect, would seem, therefore, to indicate, that England in her nineteenth century has not yet reached years of discretion after all.