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| Ambrones | [82] |
| Americans, South | [246] |
| Americans, North | [255] |
| Anne’s reign | [143] |
| Athenians | [9] |
| Austrians | [166] |
| Betrothal, various modern forms of | [193] |
| Bona Dea | [54] |
| Blue stocking | [145] |
| Bravery, female | [121], [209] |
| Britons, ancient | [81] |
| Celibacy venerated | [116] |
| Charles II., time of | [140] |
| Chivalry | [90] |
| Christianity introduced at Rome | [75] |
| Cimbri | [82] |
| Convents | [125], [249] |
| Courts of Love | [111] |
| Cromwell, time of | [136], [139] |
| Crusades | [118] |
| Danes | [174] |
| Dutch | [171] |
| English | [147] |
| Falconry | [114] |
| Feudal times | [87] |
| Flitch of bacon | [115] |
| Franks | [77] |
| Gauls | [80] |
| Germans, ancient | [79] |
| Germans, modern | [165] |
| Goths | [80] |
| Greeks, ancient | [1] |
| Greeks, modern | [176] |
| Greenland | [242] |
| Hair | [59], [138], [188] |
| Hallow E’en | [133] |
| Iceland | [175] |
| Indians of North and South America | [225], [291] |
| Irish | [149] |
| Italians | [161] |
| Knights, duties of | [92] |
| Lacedæmonians | [30] |
| Laws, modern | [199] |
| Learned women | [127], [208] |
| Liburnians | [167] |
| Marriage, modern forms of | [189] |
| Marriage deemed unholy | [76], [116] |
| Middle ages | [86] |
| Military spirit in women | [121], [209] |
| Morlachians | [168] |
| Northern nations that conquered Rome | [77] |
| Nun initiated | [251] |
| Offices held by women | [146] |
| Panegyrics on women | [140] |
| Peasantry of Europe | [180], [187] |
| Polanders | [162] |
| Portuguese | [159] |
| Pythia | [26] |
| Quaderoons | [263] |
| Queens | [206] |
| Romans | [35] |
| Russians | [172] |
| Russian settlements | [246] |
| Saint Dunstan’s Well | [116] |
| Salique law | [151] |
| Satires on women | [141] |
| Scandinavians | [77] |
| Scotch | [150] |
| Sibyl of Cumæ | [55] |
| Sibyl, Danish | [83] |
| Slave countries | [212] |
| South Sea islands | [272] |
| Spain | [157] |
| Spartans | [30] |
| Swedes | [174] |
| Swiss | [169] |
| Tournaments | [100] |
| Troubadours | [105] |
| Tricks, trying | [133] |
| Tyrolese | [168] |
| United States | [255] |
| Valentine’s day | [134] |
| Vestals | [52] |
| Visigoths | [77] |
| Walachians | [167] |
| Widows | [25], [51], [138], [205] |
| Winnisberg, women of | [98] |
| Witches | [131], [258] |
HISTORY OF WOMEN.
Penelope at her loom.
EUROPE.
Plutarch speaks with disapprobation of the Persian manner of treating women; yet the Greeks themselves kept them under very strict discipline. They had distinct apartments, in the highest and most retired part of the house, and among the wealthier classes these rooms were often kept locked and guarded. Women belonging to the royal families were not even allowed to go from one part of the house to the other without permission. When Antigone, in Euripides, obtains her mother’s permission to go on the house-top to view the Argian army, her aged guardian insists upon first searching the passage, lest the profane eyes of a citizen should dishonor her by a glance.
Young girls were more rigorously secluded than married women; yet it was considered highly indecorous for the latter to be seen beyond the door-step, until they were old enough to assume the character of matrons. Menander says:
“You go beyond the married woman’s bounds,
And stand before the hall, which is not fit;