Women of England

Women of England is by Bartlett Burleigh James. A quotation from Pepys in his Diary tells that, though the king and my Lady Castlemaine are friends again, she is not at White Hall. In a picture of a Neolithic village, the women would be seen at their several employments, some busy cutting up the meat and swinging it over the fires to roast, others mixing dough and spreading it upon flat stones over hot embers to bake.

The text says the great superiority of their stone implements over those of earlier races has given a name to the people, yet the culture of the Polished Stone Age reveals, as its most salient fact, the domestication of animals and the tilling of the soil. The text says we need not expect to discover in the women of the early modern period any radical difference from their sisters of preceding generations. The text says the noble earl who lamented that Windsor chased her from his sight was suffering incarceration in Windsor Castle for eating meat in Lent.