Excerpt from Womankind in Western Europe: From the Earliest Times to the Seventeenth Century I consider that the line of division in Western Europe between the old society and the new, as far as we can make anything like a line, lies through the earlier years of the seventeenth century, the com mencement of the reign of Louis XIII. In France and that of Charles I. In England. When I entered upon this subject, my idea was to write a complete history of Womankind in the West, and to continue it down to our own time but I found, as 1 advanced with it, that I was undertaking a task which, to be carried out properly and completely. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.