TY  - BOOK
AU  - Salaman,Malcolm C.
AU  - Hardy,Dudley
TI  - Woman—through a man's eyeglass
AV  - HQ 
PY  - 2025///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Women -- Social and moral questions
KW  - Single women
KW  - Women -- Anecdotes
KW  - Wives -- Anecdotes
N1  - Release date is 2025-05-04; Bob Taylor, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.); Originally published; New York: Lovell, Coryell & Co., 1892
N2  - "Woman—through a man's eyeglass" by Malcolm C. Salaman is a collection of social and character essays written in the late 19th century. The work offers a man's perspective—often reflective and witty—on various types of women encountered in British society, blending observation, anecdote, and light satire. Its likely purpose is to both amuse and provoke thought about gender roles, romantic ideals, and the diverse expressions of womanhood.  The opening of the book introduces Salaman’s philosophical musings on the nature of women, love, and marriage. He sets a tone of thoughtful admiration, tinged with confessions of personal experience and humorous resignation about his own bachelorhood. The early chapters then proceed as a series of sketches: the “Little Widow” is cast as dangerously charming and masterful in flirtation, “My Mother” is idealized with heartfelt affection, “The Socially Ambitious Woman” becomes a satire on social climbing, “The Domestic Woman” explores the resignation and fulfillment of home life, “A Modern Lady-Novelist” is painted as talented but self-absorbed, while “The Disappointed Spinster” and “The Individual Woman” are depicted with a blend of sympathy and critical insight. Each portrait combines anecdote, social commentary, and personal reflection, giving readers a lively, period-specific exploration of femininity seen through the author’s lens. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://archive.org/details/womanthroughmans00salarich/page/n9/mode/2up
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76008
ER  -