The crackows or piked shoes of Richard II. were rivalled in absurdity by the sleeves which came into fashion in the beginning of his successor’s reign, […]

Alcott, quite possibly influenced by his female colleagues, embraced a women's issue when he urged the founding of anticorset societies, whose members signed the pledge not to wear them.

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Even the most common moral ideas and affections […] would be stunted and dwarfed, if cut off from a spiritual background.