Darconville's Cat (66 page)

  Boccaccio’s
Corbaccio
; the Marquis de
Sade’s
Oxtiern, ou les malheurs de libertinage
;
The
Withered Punk
by Joseph Addison;
Nosros Thinleia
;
Tertullian’s “On the Veiling of Virgins”; John Lydgate’s “Bycorne
and Chichevache”; Montherlant’s
Sur les femmes
; the Jewish
apocryphal
Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs
; Durtal’s
History of the Maréchal Gilles de Rais; John Knox’s
The First
Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women
(1558); Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey’s “The Frailtie and Hurtfulnes
of Beautie” (1535); Jacques Le Clercq’s
The Case of Aristide de
Saint Hemme
; Pere Torrellas’s “Copias de las Calidades de las
Donnas” ( 1458); Aristotle’s
Master Piece
; William Acton’s
The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs
;
the sixteenth-century sermon, “Slovo Zlykh Zhenach”; Alistair
Crowley’s
Confessions
; Martino Schurigio’s
Muliebra
Historico-Medica
; Odo of Cluny’s
Collations
; K.
Dalton’s
Menstruation and Crime
.

  Antoine de la Sale’s
Les Quinze Joyes de
mariage
; Sâr Peladen’s
How to Become a Fairy
; the
Works of Gazeus; Ronald Firbank’s
The Wavering Disciple
;
The Poems of Sir Edward Sherburne; Franco Sacchetti’s
Il
Trecento Novette
; Max Funke’s
Are Women Human
?;
Der Misogyne, oder Der Feind des weiblichen Geschlechts
by
Gotthold Lessing; William Blake’s “My Spectre”;
The Koran
;
E. J. Dingwall’s
The American Woman
; The Monographs of the
Pseudo-Clementine; The Cluniac Manifestos; A. Audollent’s
Defixionum Tabettae
(1904); Strato’s “Musa Puerilis”; C.
L. Moore’s
Shambleau
;
The Alexicacon (
1668 ); Li
Yü’s
J’ou Pou Tuan
(1705);
Livre des manières
by
Henry II’s Chaplain;
The Most Delectable Nights of
Straparola
(“Piacevolissime Notte”);
Shponka’s Dream
by Nikolai Gogol.

  Ercole Tasso’s
Of Mariage and Wiving
; The
Analects of Confucius; John Bremer’s
Asexualization
; Hugh
of St. Victor’s
De bestiis et aliis rebus
; Rev. R.
Polwhele’s
The Unsex’d Females
(1798);
Solomon’s
Proverbs
; the sixth-century poem, “Bandiúc Dubh”;
The
Neurotic Choice of Mate
by L. Eidelberg; Orientus, the Bishop
of Auch’s
Monitoria
; Samuel Rowland’s “Tis Merrie When
Gossips Meete” (1602); Richard Steele’s
Spectator %
510; P.
J. Mobius’s
Ausgewählte werke
; Pierre Christophe Cardinal
Théroux-d’Arconville’s
The Shakeing of the Sheets
(1574);
John Skelton’s “The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummying”; Sir Comyn
Berkely’s
Ten Teachers
; Joseph Swetnam’s
The
Arraignment of Leivde, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women
(1615); St. John Chrysostom’s “Homily 26 on I Corinthians,” “Homily
15 Concerning the Statutes,” and “An Exhortation to Theodore After
His Fall” (
Nicene Fathers
, 2, v); Robert Herrick’s
Waste
; Bruno’s
De gli eroici furori
(1585);
Martial d’Auvergne’s
Arrests d’Amour
; J. P. Jacobsen’s
Marie Grubbe
(1876); August Strindberg’s
En häxa
(1890); Alexander Pushkin’s
Gavriliada
.

  John Cordy Jeaffreson’s
A Woman in Spite of
Herself
(1872); The Fairy Tales of Fouqué; Paracelsus’s
Werke
; Mach’s “Anti-Metaphysical Remarks”; George
Chapman’s
Bussy d’Ambois
(1607); Lorenzo Veniero’s
La
Puttana errante
;
Tom Tyler and His Wife
; St. Clement
of Rome’s “Two Epistles Concerning Virginity”; John Marston’s
The Insatiate Countess
; a chaplet of Weddirburne’s “My
Love Was False and Full of Flattery”; John Heywood’s
A Merry
Play Between Johan Johan, the Husband, Tyb, his Wife, and Sir
Johan, the Priest
(1533); Richard de Bury’s
Philobiblion
; Quevedo’s
Mujer puntiaguda con enaguas
(
1608 ); Otto Weininger’s
Geschlecht und Charakter
(1903); Jean de Meung’s
Roman de la Rose
(ca. 1300);
Andrew Peto’s “The Demonic Mother Imago in the Jewish Religion”;
Stobaeus’s
Florilegium
;
He
? by Guy De Maupassant;
Richard Baxter’s
A Just and Seasonable Reprehension of Naked
Breasts and Shoulders
(1675).

  Jacopo Passavanti’s “The Mirror of True Penance”;
The Precepts of Alfred
; Henry of Saxony’s
De secretis
mulierum
; Sir Philip Sidney’s “Fifth Song”; Aristophanes’s
Thesmophoriazusae
; Dr. John Gregory’s
A Father’s
Legacy to His Daughters
(1774); Alberti’s
Satires
;
The Contagious Diseases Act of 1869; Ouida’s
Held in
Bondage
; Anton Chekhov’s
The Grasshopper
;
The
Female Parson, or Beau in the Sudds
(1730); Machiavelli’s
Clizia
; The Works of Nicolas Edme Rétif de la Bretonne;
Tolstoy’s
The Kreutzer Sonata
; Alexander Pope’s
Epistle to a Lady
; Pietro Aretino’s /
Ragionamenti
; Villiers de L’Isle-Adam’s
The Unknown
Woman
; S. Purchas’s
Microcosmus
( 1619); “Sadism in
Women” by R. Allendy; The Complete Works of Guibert of Nogent;
Jorge Luis Borges’
The Intruder
;
De ventre
inspiciendo, or, Of the Right to Determine the Pregnancy of
Widows
; Roald Dahl’s
Someone Like You
.

  Peter Abelard’s
The Story of My
Misfortunes
; Waverly Root’s “Women Are Intellectually
Inferior”;
Erin Catharine: A Pornographic Novel
by the
Duke of Promesse; Edward Gosynhill’s
The Schole House of
Women
(1541); Gustav Theodor Fechner’s
Nanna
; Ned
Ward’s
Female Policy Detected
(1716); Rudyard Kipling’s
“The Female of the Species”; Boussuet’s
Elévations sur les
mystères
;
Politeuphia
(1597); Gratien Dupont’s
“Controversy between the Masculine and Feminine Sex” (1534); John
Donne’s
Juvenilia
; Géza Roheim’s “Psychoanalysis of
Primitive Cultural Types”; P. M. Kaberry’s
Aboriginal Women
Sacred and Profane
; Heinrich von Kleist’s
Kätchen von
Heilbronn
;
The Happy Ascetic
(1693) by Anthony
Horneck;
A Satyr Against Wooing
(1698); Jonathan Swift’s
“The Furniture of a Woman’s Mind”; Diogenes Laertius’s
Life of
Thales Milesius
; Charles Bansley’s
Treatyse Shewing and
Declaring the Pryde and Abuse of Women Now a Dayes
;
Say It
with Oil
by Ring Lardner; Robert W. Service’s
The Ballad
of the Brand
.

  St. Jerome’s “Against Helvidius”;
Reliquiae
antiquae
; Theophrastus’s
On the Disadvantage of
Marriage
; Edmund Goncourt’s
La Fille
; Ludovico
Sinistrari’s
De la démonalité et des animaux incubes et
succubes
(1688); Sir Thomas Overbury’s “A Very, Very Woman”;
Golias de conjuge non ducenda
; Everard Guilpin’s
Skialethia (
1598 );
The Rabbinical Origin of
Women
by Thomas Moore; William Dunbar’s “The Tretis of the Tua
Mariit Wemen and the Wedo”; Pierre de l’Ancre’s
Le Livre des
princes
and
L’Incrédulité et mescreance du sortilège
(1622); David Lindsay’s
A Voyage to Arcturus
; Thomas
Cooke’s
Love and Revenge, or the Vintner Outwitted
(1729);
the Works of Wilma Meikle; A. Memmi’s
L’Homme dominie
; the
medieval ms. “Fraus, Fraude”; Crowne’s
Sir Courtly Nice
(1685); Joannes Henricus Pott’s
Specimen juridicum de nefando
lamiarum cum diabolo coitu
(1689).

  Cyril Tourneur’s
The Revenger’s Tragedy
;
The Inevitability of Patriarchy
by Steven Goldberg;
Friedrich Nietzsche’s
Beyond Good and Evil;
The Works of
the Honorable Henry Cavendish; Philippe von Hartmann’s
Philosophie der ein Bewusten
; “Cackle of the Confined
Women” (1663); Dr. Abel Crucifer’s
Christianity and the Ages
Which It Darkened
[3]; Hipponax’s
On the Things We Must
Pass Over in Silence
; Wieth-Knudsen’s
Feminism; Juris
cancnici compendium
; Tippu, the Sultan of Mysore’s “Letters to
Burohau-Ud-Din”; Robert Burton’s
The Anatomy of
Melancholy
; Jacques Loubert’s
La Femme devant la
science
;
Anti-Suffrage Essays by Massachusetts Women
by Ernest Bernbaum; the Albanian epic,
Dukeshë e Zezë
; H.
T. Finck’s
Romantic Love and Personal Beauty
;
Patrologiae Cursus Completus
; Compton Mackenzie’s
Extraordinary Women
; St. Jerome’s
Book Against
Jovinian
;
The Masque of Queen Bersabe
; the Holy
Bible; Horace Walpole’s
The Mysterious Mother
;
Grausame Frauen
by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.

  [[3]Darconville lifted down this volume and, as he
did so, a sheet of paper fluttered out of it—one he quickly saw was
covered with a curious language. Unobserved, he put it in his
pocket.]

  Algernon Swinburne’s “The Triumph of Time”; J. J.
Bachofen’s
Das Mutterrecht
; T
he Book of a Thousand and
One Nights
; The Works of André Tiraqueau; Clement of
Alexandria’s
Paedagogus
; Coventry Patmore’s
Religio
Poetae
;
The Women Who Bark
by A Cynophobe; Le
Solitaire’s
La Femme ne doit pas travailler
; Westermarck’s
History of Human Marriage
; Nathaniel Ward’s
The Simple
Cobbler of Aggawam
(1647);
The Dutch Courtezan
by
John Marston; Tuteur and Glatzes’s “Murdering Mothers”; E.
Jacobson’s
The Wish for a Child in Boys
; E. J. Dingwall’s
The American Woman
; Thomas Campion’s
The Third and
Fourth Book of Ayres
;
Les Prières des Picards
; The
Works of Andreas Salernitanus;
Hieroglyphic Tales
by
Horace Walpole;
Modern Woman: The Lost Sex
by Lundberg and
Farnham;
Women Beware Women
by Thomas Middleton; Hans
Magnus Enzensberger’s “Misogynie.”

  Apollinaire’s
The Debauched Hospodar
; F.
Lee Utley’s
The Crooked Rib
; The Lyrics of Archilochus;
Gelett Burgess’s
The Maxims of Noah
and
The Maxims of
Methuselah
;
The School for Reform
by Thomas Morton;
Gascoigne’s
The Steele Glas
(1576); Dr. Magnus
Hirschfield’s
Welt als Wille und Vorstellung
and
Geschlechtskunde
;
Reveries of a Bachelor
by Ik.
Marvel; François Villon’s “La Belle Heaulmière aux filles de joie”;
Karen Horney’s
The Dread of Women
;
Sex Antagonism
by Walter Heape;
The Difference Between a Man and a Woman
by Theodore Lang; Lord Bemers’s
Six Requirements for a Happy
Marriage
; Théodore Joran’s
La Trouvée Féministe
; John
Webster’s
The White Devvil
;
The Chinese Book of
Odes
; J. D. Unwin’s
Sex and Culture
; Thomas
Gisbourne’s
An Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex
(1797); Walter Besant’s
The Revolt of Man
; H. Fuseli’s
Aphorisms; Religio Medici
by Thomas Browne; Correa M.
Walsh’s
Feminism
; John Betjeman’s
An Oxford University
Chest
; Dr. Heilborn’s
The Opposite Sexes
; James
Corin’s
Mating, Marriage, and the Status of Women
; P. J.
Proudhon’s
La Pornocratie, ou Les Femmes
.

  Philip Wylie’s
A Generation of Vipers
; John
Lyly’s
Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit
; Tertullian’s
On
Monogamy
and
On Pudicity
;
Why She Wouldn’t
Marry
(1948) by C. Linda; Thomas Otway’s
The Orphan
;
Rudyard Kipling’s
Mary Postgate
;
The Enemies of
Women
by Vicente Ibanez; “Men and Women Speak Different
Languages” by Col. Thomas Stott; George Farquhar’s
Sir Harry
Wildair
( 1701 );
L’Homme-femme
by Alexandre Dumas,
fils; Theodor Reik’s
The Creation of Women
;
The
Fundamental Error of Woman Suffrage
by William Parker;
Euripides’s
Hippolytus
; L. Ron Hubbard’s
Dianetics
; William Blake’s “How Sweet I Roam’d”;
The
Female Offender
by Prof. Caesar Lombroso; Ford Madox Ford’s
No More Parades
;
The Fear of Being a Woman
by
Joseph Rheingold; Dr. Fritz’s
Wittels die sexuelle Not
;
The Seven Sages of Rome
; Karl Krause’s
Werke (
14
vols. ); Remy de Gourmont’s
L’Histoire tragique de la princesse
Phénissa
.

  Thomas Dekker’s
The Batchelars Banquet (
1603 ); Stephen Gosson’s
Quippes for Upstart Newfangled
Gentlemen (
1595 ); The Works of Barbey d’Aurevilly; W. S.
Gilbert’s
Gentle Alice Brown
; Heinrich Schurtz’s
Urgeschichte der Kultur
; William Shakespeare’s
King
Lear
; Paul Theroux’s
Girls at Play
;
Life with
Women and How to Survive It
by Joseph Peck, M.D.; Pierre
Janet’s
L’Automatisme psychologique
; William Prynne’s
The Unlovelinesse of Love-Lockes
(1628); Ben Jonson’s
“Epigram on the Court Pucell”; Benjamin Constant’s
Adolphe
; Plato’s
Apology
; Oskar Vogt’s
Altindische Dichtung und Weisheit
; John Fletcher’s
Monsieur Thomas
(1639); Alexis, the Attic Comedian’s “On
the Numerous Beauty Aids Used to Fit Young Ladies Out as Shiny
Snakes”;
Rumplestiltskin
; The Complete Strindberg;
Massinger’s
The Duke of Milan
; Anonymous,
The Praise
and Dispraise of Women
; John Fowles’s
The French
Lieutenant’s Woman
; Ulrich Molitor’s
De lamiis et
phitonicis muliebribus
( 1489); J. S. Redfield’s
Modern
Women and What Is Said of Them
; Aeschylus’s
Eumenides
; T. X. Hoeur’s
Die schwarze Herzogin
;
Thomas Otway’s
The Orphan
; The Works of the Knight of La
Tour Landry; the
Topica Legalia
of Claude
Chansonnette.