The Celtic races, in their days of developed barbarism, seem to have been relatively free from the idea of proprietorship in women, and it was probably among the Irish (as we learn from the seventeenth century Itinerary of Fynes Moryson) that the habit of nakedness was longest preserved among the upper social class women of Western Europe.
A. B. Ellis, Tshi-Speaking Peoples, p. 280.
Burnet, Life and Death of Rochester, p. 110.
L'Année Sociologique, seventh year, 1904, p. 439.