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2 - Hints for the Selection of Becoming and Appropriate Types of Head-Gear

In What Dress Makes of Us

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Dorothy Quigley

A wickedly funny book of advice on women's dress. However old, fat or plain you are, Dorothy Quigley will tell you what not to wear. (Summar…

Sex in the Marriage Relation (The Wife)

In Sex

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Henry Stanton

Henry Stanton’s 1922 book Sex – Avoided Subjects Discussed in Plain English is intended as a frank (although conservative and moralistic) gu…

TICONDEROGA 1758

In Chronicles of Canada Volume 10 - A Chronicle of Montcalm

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William Wood

Montcalm is, of course, a very prominent character in every history of New France. This book gives a brief history of the Montcalm family in…

24 - Chapter XXIV: The Artist And His Costume

In Woman as Decoration

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Emily Burbank and Helen M. Urban

A guide for women to complement their dress to their surroundings, be it in their own home, on outings or on stage. (Summary by Julie VW)

INTRODUCTION & Departure from Greenock in the Brig _Laurel_

In The Backwoods of Canada

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Catharine Parr Traill

The writer is as earnest in recommending ladies who belong to the higher class of settlers to cultivate all the mental resources of a superi…

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