Volume 44, Number 2 · February 6, 1997
How the Other Half Lived
By Fiona MacCarthy
The Prospect Before Her: A History of Women in Western Europe—Volume One, 1500-1800
by Olwen Hufton
Knopf, 638 pp., $35.00
Olwen Hufton opens the first volume of her two-part history of Western European women with a supposedly revealing anecdote.
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