Sketches Of The Fair Sex: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Sketches Of The Fair Sex, credited to Anonymous, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of 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)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Sketches Of The Fair Sex
• Author credits: Anonymous
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 30
• Listed recording duration: 6:06:43

Catalogue topics

• non-fiction
• fashion
• history
• humor
• women

Opening tracks: first 24 of 30

1. 01 - IN THE FOLLOWING PAGES to PERSIAN WOMEN. — 16:39
2. 02 - GRECIAN WOMEN. GRECIAN COURTEZANS. — 6:48
3. 03 - ROMAN WOMEN. LAWS AND CUSTOMS RESPECTING THE ROMAN WOMEN. — 13:54
4. 04 - WOMEN IN SAVAGE LIFE. EASTERN WOMEN. — 12:56
5. 05 - CHINESE WOMAN. AFRICAN WOMEN. — 7:57
6. 06 - GREAT ENTERPRISES OF WOMEN. OTHER PARTICULARS. — 13:19
7. 07 - FRENCH WOMEN. ITALIAN WOMEN. — 10:26
8. 08 - SPANISH WOMEN. ENGLISH WOMEN. RUSSIAN WOMEN. — 12:23
9. 09 - THE IDEA OF FEMALE INFERIORITY. FEMALE SIMPLICITY. — 17:33
10. 10 - THE MILD MAGNANIMITY OF WOMEN to INFLUENCE OF FEMALE SOCIETY. — 19:31
11. 11 - MONASTIC LIFE. DEGREES OF SENTIMENTAL ATTACHMENT. — 16:36
12. 12 - GERMAN WOMEN to BETROTHING AND MARRIAGE. — 13:59
13. 13 - FEMALE FRIENDSHIP. — 6:18
14. 14 - ON THE CHOICE OF A HUSBAND. — 20:55
15. 15 - A LETTER TO A NEW MARRIED MAN. GARRICK'S ADVICE TO MARRIED LADIES. — 9:31
16. 16 - ORIGIN OF NUNNERIES to CEREMONY OF THE INITIATION OF A NUN. — 9:12
17. 17 - WEDDED LOVE to MAHOMETAN PLURALITY OF WIVES. — 11:07
18. 18 - WOMEN OF OTAHEITE to A WORD TO A VERY NICE CLASS OF LADIES. — 9:35
19. 19 - CUSTOM IN THE MOGHUL EMPIRE to SALE OF A WIFE. — 15:59
20. 20 - PUNISHMENT OF ADULTERY to POWER OF MARRYING. — 8:04
21. 21 - CELIBACY OF CLERGY. DESPERATE ACT OF EUTHIRA. — 6:55
22. 22 - LUXURIOUS DRESS OF GRECIAN LADIES. GRECIAN COURTSHIP. — 6:06
23. 23 - POWER OF PHILTRES AND CHARMS to LONG HAIR OF SAXONS AND DANES. — 7:05
24. 24 - ST. VALENTINE'S DAY to INDECENCY AT ADRIANOPLE. — 8:06

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