Women's Studies Books

Are Parents People?

Alice Duer Miller

On Sundays the whole school came out in blue serge and black velvet tam-o'-shanters. The little girls marched first—some as young as eleven years—and as they came from the main school buildings and ma..

The Seven Ages of Woman

Compton MacKenzie

On a June morning in the year 1859 Sir Richard Flower of Barton Flowers in the county of Southampton decided that the weather was propitious for his annual progress on horseback round the confines of ..

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1026, August 26, 1899

Various Authors

    Lucy had her full share of the sweet womanly instinct of obedience. It is an instinct which is often strong in proportion to the strength of the whole nature. It works so natur..

The Old House - A Novel

Cecile Tormay

While Christopher Ulwing listened unconsciously to the murmur of the Danube, silent shades rose from afar and spoke to his soul. He thought of the ancient Ulwings who had lived in the great dark Germa..

Woman in the golden ages

Amelia Gere Mason

These essays are limited mainly to the golden ages of Greece, Rome, and the Renaissance, with a brief interlude that serves as a transition from pagan to medieval times. The mantle of the great Italia..

How to Pick a Mate: The Guide to a Happy Marriage

Clifford R. Adams

Girls in some age brackets will be hit harder than others, and we sympathize with the girls past twenty-five who feel they were passing the peak of the eligibility curve for marriage while many of the..

Thoughts on the Education of Daughters

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

How bewitching is that humble softness of manners which humility gives birth to, and how faint are the imitations of affectation! That gentleness of behaviour, which makes us courteous to all, and tha..

We Women and Our Authors

Laura Marholm

We German women are accustomed to look upon ourselves as an appendage to or a part of man. Up till now it has been the chief object and the pride of our existence to subordinate ourselves to him, and ..