Charles Dickens on Women
1812–1870 England
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A good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.
The Pickwick Papers (1837)
I assure you she's the dearest girl.
David Copperfield (1850)
But in some odd nook in Mrs. Todgers's breast, up a great many steps, and in a corner easy to be overlooked, there was a secret door, with "Woman" written on the spring, which, at a touch from Mercy's hand, had flown wide open, and admitted her for shelter.
Martin Chuzzlewit (1844)
Minerva House, conducted under the auspices of the two sisters, was a 'finishing establishment for young ladies,' where some twenty girls of the ages of from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing; instruction in French and Italian, dancing lessons twice a-week; and other necessaries of life.
Sketches by Boz (1839)