Ask a 19th-Century Lady to Draw a Map of a Woman’s Heart

The largest regions, Love of Admiration, Love of Dress, and Love of Display, all suggest that women are also essentially shallow and frivolous.

No doubt! Drawn sometime between 1833 and 1842, this Map of the Open Country of a Woman’s Heart, by “A Lady” (who could also possibly/probably be a man), exhibits the true layout of our “internal communications, and the facilities and dangers to Travellers therein.” I live between Feather Hill and the River of Pensive Musings, but summer near the Tenting Grounds of Uncertainty. You?

[Thanks, Hannah!]