Kathryn's+Allibone's

Allibone's Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors an index of over 46,000 authors published in 1871



78. Womankind in Western Europe, from the Earliest Ages to the Seventeenth Century, Illustrated with coloured Plates and numerous Wood Engravings, 1869, fp. 4to, 25//s//. "It is something more than a drawing-room ornament. It is an elaborate and careful summary of all that one of our most learned antiquaries, after years of pleasant labor on a very pleasant subject, has been able to learn as to the condition of women from the earliest times." -- //Lon. Times,// 1869. "A very valuable and entertaining history of the female sex in that division of mankind to which we belong, by an antiquary fully equipped by previous investigations for the task." -- //Lon. Bookseller//, Dec. 13, 1869. "Replete with curious information on a subject well worth studying." -- //Notes and Queries//, 1870, i. 25. Perhaps no Englishman of modern times, or of any times, has intelligently treated so many different departments of literary research: Archaeology, Art, Bibliography, Biography, Christianity, Customs, Domestic Economy, Education, Fiction, Geography, Geology, Heraldry, History, Literary History, Natural History, Poetry, Philology, Politics, Topography, and Travels, are among the topics illustrated by the learning, zeal, and industry of Mr. Briareus -- we beg pardon, Mr. Thomas Wright. A portrait of this gentleman -- it should be crowned with the motto, //Nil actum reputans dum quid superesset agendum// -- will be found in the Drawing-Room Portrait-Gallery for Oct. 1, 1859.

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