Volume 32, Number 6 · April 11, 1985

Only Women

By Lawrence Stone
The Weaker Vessel
by Antonia Fraser

Knopf, 544 pp., $19.95

Women in English Society, 1500–1800
edited by Mary Prior

Methuen, 281 pp., $9.95 (paper)

Before beginning a discussion of the books under review, I must first set out the ten commandments which should, in my opinion, govern the writing of women's history at any time and in any place:



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