“English women,” “Englishwomen,” and “English-women” all appear in this text and have not been changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.

Page [vi]: “idiosyncracies” was printed that way.

Page [123]: “ne not may” was printed that way (“ne”).

Page [150]: “theorboe” may be a misprint for “the orboe”.