Copyrighted at Washington and entered at Stationer's Hall, London,
1907–1908
and printed by arrangement with George Barrie's Sons.
PRINTED IN U.S.A.
Contents
| PREFACE | [vii] | |
| Chapter I. | Woman in politics | [1] |
| Chapter II. | Woman in Family Life, Education, and Letters | [31] |
| Chapter III. | The Seventeenth Century: Woman at Her Best | [69] |
| Chapter IV. | Woman in Society and Literature | [97] |
| Chapter V. | Mistresses and Wives of Louis XIV | [131] |
| Chapter VI. | Mme. de Sévigné, Mme. de La Fayette, Mme. Dacier, Mme. de Caylus | [165] |
| Chapter VII. | Woman in Religion | [197] |
| Chapter VIII. | Salon Leaders: Mme. de Tencin, Mme. Geoffrin, Mme. du Deffand, Mlle. de Lespinasse, Mme. du Châtelet | [221] |
| Chapter IX. | Salon Leaders—(Continued): Mme. Necker, Mme. d'Epinay, Mme. de Genlis: Minor Salons | [249] |
| Chapter X. | Social Classes | [277] |
| Chapter XI. | Royal Mistresses | [305] |
| Chapter XII. | Marie Antoinette and the Revolution | [329] |
| Chapter XIII. | Women of the Revolution and the Empire | [355] |
| Chapter XIV. | Women of the Nineteenth Century | [381] |