"Essays" in 2 volumes is a collection of essays upon various social subjects written by the British journalist Eliza Lynn Linton, who was a severe critic of early feminism. Her most famous essay on this matter, The Girl of the Period, was published in Saturday Review in 1868 and was a vehement attack on feminism. Linton is a leading example of the fact that the fight against votes for women was not only organised by men. This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices.

Volume 1:

The Girl of the Period

Modern Mothers

Paying One's Shot

What is Woman's Work?

Little Women

Ideal Women

Pinchbeck

Affronted Womanhood

Feminine Affectations

Interference

The Fashionable Woman

Sleeping Dogs

Beauty and Brains

Nymphs

Mésalliances

Weak Sisters

Pinching Shoes

Superior Beings

Feminine Amenities

Grim Females

Mature Sirens

Pumpkins

Widows

Dolls

Charming Women

Apron-strings

Fine Feelings

Sphinxes

Flirting

Scramblers

Flattery

La Femme Passée

Spoilt Women

Dovecots

Bored Husbands

Volume 2:

Gushing Men

Sweet Seventeen

The Habit of Fear

Old Ladies

Voices

Burnt Fingers

Désœuvrement

The Shrieking Sisterhood

Otherwise-minded

Limp People

The Art of Reticence

Men's Favourites

Womanliness

Something to Worry

Sweets of Married Life

Social Nomads

Great Girls

Shunted Dowagers

Privileged Persons

Modern Man-haters

Vague People

Arcadia

Strangers at Church

In Sickness

On a Visit

Drawing-room Epiphytes

The Epicene Sex

Women's Men

Hotel Life in England

Our Masks

Heroes at Home

Seine-fishing

The Discontented Woman

English Clergymen in Foreign Watering-places

Old Friends

Popular Women

Choosing or Finding

Local Fêtes