“This is much more than a pretty illustrated book. It is a repertory of antiquarian literature on the costume, social habits, domestic pursuits, and position of the sex, and the illustrations are from all sorts of recondite sources--MS. illuminations of the Romances, Psalters, and Chronicles. It reflects great credit on the writer, whose vast stores of information and research have been, in this instance, well employed. The volume is quite an encyclopædia on a special subject.”--_Saturday Review_. “As a work of art, no less than of literary elucidation, this book is perfect in all its parts, and most honourable to its publishers.... The letterpress enhances the value of the work itself a hundredfold, as might have been expected from so well known and learned an antiquarian as Mr. Wright, whose participation in so choice a work makes it in every respect worthy of a place in every public and well-selected library, where art and literature are alike patronized and admired.”--_Bell’s Weekly Messenger_. “We cannot justly class Mr. Wright’s ‘Womankind’ amongst the ephemeral books of the season; yet it is admirably suited to answer the purpose of a gift-book--and much more; and it would be unfair to leave it until its less solid neighbours had been cleared out of hand. The high antiquarian renown of the author would alone guarantee that we should have no frivolous, superficial dissertation on the mere outward phenomena of ‘femininity’ in past times--no mere sentimental declamation in favour of woman’s advancement to a social place which she never before claimed. On the contrary, we have a faithful, unshrinking, photographically minute account of the relations between women and men, and of female manners, dress, social duties, and position, literary achievements, and participation in public life, from the date at which authentic history takes cognizance of the condition of the European nations.... Mr. Wright’s ‘Womankind’--like the ideal of the gentle sex--is fitted, not for the festive season alone, but for every time.”--_Daily Telegraph._ “The author’s name, on whatever subject he writes, is a guarantee for thorough scholarship, solid information, lucid exposition, and careful delineation; and in this work all these qualities are conspicuous. Mr. Wright believes, and with good reason, ‘that a history of the female sex, in that particular division of mankind to which we ourselves belong, would not be unacceptable to the general reader.’ Such a history he has here produced, and in doing so, has left nothing to be desired.... In every sense this is a splendid book, for which we heartily thank Mr. Wright.”--_Illustrated Times._