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## Retrospection
### Or, a review of the most striking and important events, characters, situations and their consequences, which the last eighteen hundred years have presented to the view of mankind
> [!SUMMARY]
> [[Hester Thrale née Salusbury]] wrote **Retrospection** in 1801, the first attempt by an Englishwoman to write a history of the world.
>
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> <div class="caption">Retrospection, inner title sheet, 1801.</div>
## Volume one
| Chapter | Title |
| ------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| [[Retrospection epigraph\|Epigraph]] | |
| [[Retrospection preface\|Preface]] | |
| I | Containing the First Century; from [Tiberius](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius) to [Trajan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajan). |
| II | Containing the Second Century; from Trajan to [Caracalla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracalla). |
| III | From Caracalla to the Death of [Alexander Severus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Severus). First Portion of the Third Century. |
| IV | From the Death of Alexander Severus to A.D. 300, the Retreat of [Dioclesian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dioclesian). |
| V | From the Death of Diocletian to the Death of [Constantine the Great](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_the_Great). Part of the Fourth Century. |
| VI | From Constantine to [Theodosius](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodosius_I), A.D. 400 |
| VII | From [Theodosius the Elder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodosius_II) to the Death of [Attila](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attila_the_hun), about fifty Years. |
| VIII | From the Death of Attila to A.D. 500. |
| IX | To the Expulsion of the Gothick Kings. First Portion of the Sixth Century. |
| X | From the Expulsion of the Gothick Kings by [Belisarius](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belisarius), to A.D. 600. |
| XI | From [Good St. Gregory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Gregory_I) to the Death of [Charles Martel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Martel), A.D. 700. |
| XII | From the Birth of Charles Martel, A.D. 700 to [Charlemagne](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne), A.D. 800. |
| XIII | From the Crowning of Charlemagne 800, to the Death of [Alfred](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_the_Great) A.D. 900. |
| XIV | From the Death of Alfred, A.D. 900 to the Foundation of the [Turkish Empire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire) under Tangrolipix, 1000, to the Time of the First Crusade, A.D. 1100. |
| XV | From the first Founding of the Turkish Empire under Tangrolipix, 1000, to the Time of the [First Crusade](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Crusade), A.D. 1100. |
| XVI | From the Year 1097, First Crusade, to the Middle of the Twelfth Century, A.D. 1150. |
| XVII | To the Year of our Lord 1200. |
| XVIII | From the Year 1200 to 1230. |
| XIX | Second Portion of the Thirteenth Century. |
| XX | To the Year of our Lord 1300. |
| XXI | From A.D. 1300, to the Year 1350, or nearly so. |
| XXII | Ending with A.D. 1400. |
| XXIII | From A.D. 1400 to the Year 1425. |
| [[Retrospection volume 1 chapter 24\|XXIV]] | To the [Sacking of Constantinople](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Constantinople), A.D. 1455, and its immediate Consequences. |
## Volume two
| Chapter | Title |
| ------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| I | Containing an Account of Jews, Turks, and Roman Empire, for forty-seven Years, from 1455 to 1492. |
| II | Containing an Reviewal of England, France, Spain, Holland, Denmark, Scotland - their Advancements from 1455 to 1492. The same Period of forty-seven years. |
| III | Containing the Discoveries, &c. from A.D. 1492 to 1525. |
| IV | Turks and Italians, French and English from 1492, to 1525. |
| V | Popes, and the other European Princes, to.A. D. 1550. |
| VI | Progress of Science, Progress of Discovery, and Turkish Empire reviewed, from 1550 to 1600. |
| VII | Italy, Germany, Spain, England, France, and the North--Progress of Reformation--From A.D. 1550 to 1600. |
| VIII | First Portion of the Seventeenth Century; its Effects on England, Scotland, Holland, France, and Portugal; with a Sketch of the Changes in Common Life, and Progress of Science. |
| iX | Portugal, Persia, India, China, Turkey, Africa, and Rome, to 1650. |
| X | Sweden, Germany, France, and America, down to 1650. |
| XI | Great Britain only, down to 1650. |
| XII | France, Spain, Sweden, Italy, from 1650 to 1700. |
| XIII | East, West, and North, from 1650 to 1700--Progress of Science, Manners, &c. |
| XIV | Spain, Portugal, Germany, Holland, and Great Britain, from 1650 to 1700. |
| XV | Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Russia, and Turkey, from 1700 to 1725. |
| XVI | France, England, Spain, Holland, Italy, and Austria, from 1700 to 1725. |
| XVII | America, Asia, Africa, and General Sketch of Improvements in Europe, from 1725 to 1750. |
| XVIII | Sketch of the Situation of Austria, Turkey, Russia, France, and Italy, from 1725 to 1750. |
| XIX | Great Britain, Ireland, and America, from 1750 to 1780. |
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| Introduction <br> [[Retrospection epigraph\|Epigraph]] |
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