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Sketches Of The Fair Sex
by Anonymous
Sketches of the fair sex, in all parts of the world. To which are added rules for determining the precise figure, the degree of beauty, the habits, and the age of women, notwithstanding the aids and disguise of dress. It is our design to present a pleasing and interesting miscellany, which will serve to beguile the leisure hour, and will at the same time couple instruction with amusement. We have used but little method in the arrangement: Choosing rather to furnish the reader with a rich profusion of narratives and anecdotes, all tending to illustrate the FEMALE CHARACTER, to display its delicacy, its sweetness, its gentle or sometimes heroic virtues, its amiable weaknesses, and strange defects—than to attempt an accurate analysis of the hardest subject man ever attempted to master, viz—WOMAN. (Summary from the book)
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Total running time: 6:06:43
In addition to the readers, this audio book was produced by:
Book Coordinator: Neeru Iyer
Dedicated Proof-Listener: AnnSterling
Meta-Coordinator/Cataloging: Bart
de Leeuw & Neeru Iyer
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- 01 - IN THE FOLLOWING PAGES to PERSIAN WOMEN. – 00:16:38
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Read by Colman Shew - 02 - GRECIAN WOMEN. GRECIAN COURTEZANS. – 00:06:48
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Read by Lucy Perry - 03 - ROMAN WOMEN. LAWS AND CUSTOMS RESPECTING THE ROMAN WOMEN. – 00:13:53
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Read by swade - 04 - WOMEN IN SAVAGE LIFE. EASTERN WOMEN. – 00:12:55
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Read by Kalynda - 05 - CHINESE WOMAN. AFRICAN WOMEN. – 00:07:56
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Read by Bellona Times - 06 - GREAT ENTERPRISES OF WOMEN. OTHER PARTICULARS. – 00:13:18
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Read by Bellona Times - 07 - FRENCH WOMEN. ITALIAN WOMEN. – 00:10:25
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Read by Chloe - 08 - SPANISH WOMEN. ENGLISH WOMEN. RUSSIAN WOMEN. – 00:12:22
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Read by swade - 09 - THE IDEA OF FEMALE INFERIORITY. FEMALE SIMPLICITY. – 00:17:33
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Read by TriciaG - 10 - THE MILD MAGNANIMITY OF WOMEN to INFLUENCE OF FEMALE SOCIETY. – 00:19:31
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Read by edbucks - 11 - MONASTIC LIFE. DEGREES OF SENTIMENTAL ATTACHMENT. – 00:16:36
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Read by edbucks - 12 - GERMAN WOMEN to BETROTHING AND MARRIAGE. – 00:13:59
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Read by Tim Ferreira - 13 - FEMALE FRIENDSHIP. – 00:06:18
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Read by Terry Goodyer - 14 - ON THE CHOICE OF A HUSBAND. – 00:20:54
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Read by Bellona Times - 15 - A LETTER TO A NEW MARRIED MAN. GARRICK'S ADVICE TO MARRIED LADIES. – 00:09:31
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Read by TriciaG - 16 - ORIGIN OF NUNNERIES to CEREMONY OF THE INITIATION OF A NUN. – 00:09:11
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Read by Kalynda - 17 - WEDDED LOVE to MAHOMETAN PLURALITY OF WIVES. – 00:11:07
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Read by summerdaze - 18 - WOMEN OF OTAHEITE to A WORD TO A VERY NICE CLASS OF LADIES. – 00:09:35
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Read by summerdaze - 19 - CUSTOM IN THE MOGHUL EMPIRE to SALE OF A WIFE. – 00:15:59
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Read by TriciaG - 20 - PUNISHMENT OF ADULTERY to POWER OF MARRYING. – 00:08:03
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Read by Kalynda - 21 - CELIBACY OF CLERGY. DESPERATE ACT OF EUTHIRA. – 00:06:55
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Read by Randall Ryan - 22 - LUXURIOUS DRESS OF GRECIAN LADIES. GRECIAN COURTSHIP. – 00:06:06
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Read by Terry Goodyer - 23 - POWER OF PHILTRES AND CHARMS to LONG HAIR OF SAXONS AND DANES. – 00:07:05
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Read by Nadine Eckert-Boulet - 24 - ST. VALENTINE'S DAY to INDECENCY AT ADRIANOPLE. – 00:08:06
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Read by edbucks - 25 - ANCIENT SWEDISH COURTSHIP. LAPLAND AND GREENLAND LADY. – 00:05:38
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Read by Terry Goodyer - 26 - EDUCATION OF WOMEN to THE PICTURE OF A BEAUTIFUL FEMALE. – 00:12:07
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Read by Bellona Times - 27 - ART OF DETERMINING THE PRECISE FIGURE, THE DEGREE OF BEAUTY, THE HABITS, AND THE AGE, OF WOMEN, NOTWITHSTANDING THE AIDS AND DISGUISES OF DRESS. – 00:19:44
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Read by Dirk Eichhorn - 28 - THE IDEAL OF FEMALE BEAUTY; OR A DESCRIPTION OF THE FAMOUS STATUE OF THE VENUS DE MEDICI. THE FIRST KISS OF LOVE. THE DEATH OF CLEOPATRA. – 00:16:48
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Read by Demi Fair - 29 - AN ESSAY ON MATRIMONY (Part 1) – 00:16:17
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Read by edbucks - 30 - AN ESSAY ON MATRIMONY (Part 2) – 00:15:25
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Read by edbucks
Cataloged on October 04, 2010













