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CONTENTS of Women in English Life from Mediaeval to Modern Times Volume 1 of 2]

INTRODUCTION.

PERIOD I. WOMEN IN THE DAYS OF FEUDALISM.
CHAPTER I. A MEDI VAL MANOR-HOUSE.
CHAPTER II. LEARNING BEFORE THE DAYS OF THE PRINTING PRESS.
CHAPTER III. THE RISE OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES.
CHAPTER IV. WOMEN AND THE ANCIENT GILDS.
CHAPTER V. THE MEDI VAL NUN.
CHAPTER VI. THE CHURCH AS A SOCIAL FACTOR.
CHAPTER VII. ALMSGIVING IN OLDEN TIMES.

PERIOD II. ENGLAND AFTER THE RENAISSANCE.
CHAPTER I. FAMILY LIFE AFTER THE FALL OF FEUDALISM.
CHAPTER II. THE SCHOLARS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
CHAPTER III. A LADY'S EDUCATION IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
CHAPTER IV. GLIMPSES AT GREAT LADIES.
CHAPTER V. EVERY-DAY LIFE IN THE STUART PERIOD.
CHAPTER VI. PETITIONERS TO PARLIAMENT.
CHAPTER VII. HEROINES OF THE CIVIL WAR.
CHAPTER VIII. THE MARTYR PERIODS: RELIGIOUS ZEAL AND RELIGIOUS APATHY.
CHAPTER IX. WITCHCRAFT.
CHAPTER X. WOMEN AND THE ARTS.

PERIOD III. LIFE IN THE LAST CENTURY.
CHAPTER I. MATRONS AND MAIDS.
CHAPTER II. THE GREAT LADY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.