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Volume 1: Personal Beauty and Care
1. ANON. The Book of Health and Beauty or, the Toilette of Rank and Fashion (London: Joseph Thomas, 1837), pp. 1-150.
2. Alexander Ross, Hints on Dress and on the Arrangement of the Hair: A Practical Essay, Suited to Either Sex (London: Ross and Company: 1861), pp. 1-16.
3. Alexander Ross, The Black Wizard: A Wonderful Toilet Tale. ? Ugliness and its Remedy. ? A Serio-Comic Drama of Two Hundred Years Ago. ? Revaccination (London, 1874), pp. 1-13.
4. Marie Mott Gage, How to Cultivate Beauty, 7th Edition (Chicago, Ill.: Early & Halla Print. Co., 1893), pp. 1-34.
5. The Art of ‘Making Up’ by the Hess Company (Rochester, N.Y.: The Company, 1921), pp. 1-53.
6. Marie Bayard, The Art of Beauty, or Lady’s Companion to the Boudoir (London: Weldon & Co., 1876), pp. 1-56.
Volume II: Personal Beauty and Care (continued)
7. ANON. The Art of Beauty. A Book for Women and Girls by a Toilet Specialist (Isobel Handbooks no 7) London: C. A. Parson, 1899), pp. 1-152.
8. Charlotte Eliza Humphrey, Beauty Adorned (London: T Fisher Urwin, 1901), pp. 1-134.
Volume III: Personal Beauty and Care (continued)
9. S. G., The Art of Being Beautiful (London: Henry J. Drane, 1902), pp. 1-116.
10. Mrs Robert Noble (ed.), Every Woman’s Toilet Book (London: George Newnes, 1908), pp. 1-144.
Volume IV: Beauty, Fashion and Health
Part 1: Beauty vs. Fashion
11. Anon. The Christian Lady’s Toilette; or, the Principles Which Should Regulate her Dress, Suggested. An Essay Read to the Society of Young Ladies Meeting for Mutual Improvement by One of the Members, 3rd edition (J. W. Showell: Birmingham; G. & J. Dyer: London, 1844), pp. 1-30
12. William Forster, The Lamp of Beauty. A Sermon Preached by the Rev. W. Forster in the Free Christian Church, Clarence Road, Kentish Town, on October 12th, 1856 to Young Women (London: Edward J. Whitfield, 1856), pp. 3-18.
13. Elizabeth Smith Oakes, Hints on Dress and Beauty (New York: Fowlers and Wells, 1852), pp. 1-75.
14. Anon. The Queen of Beauty for the Throne of Fashion (Manchester: Tubbs and Brook; London: Simpkin, 1871), pp. 3-44.
15. Reuben Stillwell, Dress, Pride and Beauty: A Plea for Plainness and Naturalness (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1896), pp. 1-15.
Part 2: Corsetry
16. Rebecca Mills, The Influence of Well-made Stays on the Health and the Beauty of Woman, and the Great Injuries which Ill-made Ones Inflict (London: Stewart and Murray, 1841), pp. 1-88.
17. Madame De La Sante, The Corset Defended (London: T. E. Carler, 1865), pp. 1-31.
18. William Hempston Denham, The Use and Action of Stays and Corsets, on Disease and Development of the Female Figure (London: John Churchill, 1862), pp. 1-32
19. Frederick Treves, The Dress of the Period in its Relations to Health: A Lecture (London: Allman & Son, 1882), pp. 1-32.
20. E. D. M. Figure Training; or, Art the Handmaid of Nature (London: Ward, Lock & Tyler, 1871), pp. 1-125.
Volume V: Beauty, Fashion and Health (continued)
Part 3: Dress Reform
21. Dress, Health & Beauty: A Book for Ladies. Containing Practical Suggestions for the Improvement of Modern Dress, Regarded from an Artistic and Sanitary Point of View (London : Ward, Lock, & Co., 1878), pp. 1-151.
22. E. M. King, Rational Dress; or, the Dress of Women and Savages (London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1, Paternoster Sq., 1882), pp. 1-29.
23. Mary S. G. Nichols, The Clothes Considered: In its Relations to Beauty, Comfort, and Health (London: Published by The Author, 1878), pp. 1-88.
24. Frances Stuart Parker, Dress and How to Improve It (Chicago, Chicago Legal News Co., 1897), pp. 1-125.
Volume VI: Beauty Education and Self-Management
Part 1: Beauty and (Physical) Education
25. R. A. Caplin, assisted by John Mill, ‘Causes of Female Debility’ and ‘Bodily Culture’, chapters 3 and 4 from Women in the Reign of Queen Victoria (London: Dean & Son, 1876), pp. 48-98.
26. Gordon Stables, ‘Exercise-Clothing-Hobbies’, ‘Athletics for Girls’, ‘Healthful Recreations’, ‘Tricycling as a Cure for Chronic Ailments’, ‘What Cycling Can Cure’, ‘Gloxinia Schizandria Aramantha C?(a True Story of Tight-Lacing)’, ‘The Health of Certain Pastimes’, ‘How Fanny Ffisher Lost Her Figure, and Found it Again (A True Story with a bit of a Moral in it), from The Girl’s Own Book of Health and Beauty (London: Jarrold & Sons, 1892).pp. 58-96, 108-115, 168-182.
27. Mary Whitley (Ed.), excerpts from Every Girl’s Book of Sport, Occupation, and Pastime (Routledge & Sons: London, 1897 [1896]), pp. 178-276.
Part 2: Self-Management, Economy and Women Consumer
28. E. E. Perkins, The Lady’s Shopping Manual and Mercury Album (T. Hurst: London: 1834), pp. 1-98.
29. Sylvia, How to Dress Well on a Shilling a Day (London: Ward, Lock, & Tyler, 1876), pp. 1-126.
