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The Open Country of Woman’s Heart & Other Allegorical Maps.

The Public Domain Review has some wonderful and awesome allegorical maps, which clearly show the trains of thought and cultural sentiments of the 18th and 19th centuries. Click for full size.

A Map of the Open Country of Woman’s Heart, Exhibiting its internal communications, and the facilities and dangers to Travellers therein, By A Lady; Lith. of D.W. Kellog & Co, ca. 1830s — Source.

A Map of the Open Country of Woman’s Heart, Exhibiting its internal communications, and the facilities and dangers to Travellers therein, By A Lady; Lith. of D.W. Kellog & Co, ca. 1830s — [Source.]

Thomas Sayer’s A Map or Chart of the Road of Love, and Harbour of Marriage, 1748 — Source.

Thomas Sayer’s A Map or Chart of the Road of Love, and Harbour of Marriage, 1748 — [Source.]

You can see many more of these allegorical maps at The Public Domain Review.

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  3. rq says

    I recently made a(n incomplete) map of The Progressive Landscape. Perhaps I should share.
    But these -- how wild and untamed is the human spirit! I must express disappointment, though. I expected the woman’s heart to be more “Here Be Monsters”, as per manly opinion, but perhaps that’s a more modern slant.

  5. says

    Chigau:

    Me, I doubt that the Map of a Woman’s Heart was authored by a lady.

    Oh, I’m quite confident it was not “a lady”. Only a man would use that particular phraseology.

  6. says

    “Cuckold’s Shire”, “Noisy Cape”, and “Henpecked Sand”, but not a word about the woman being abused. Newp, discontent with her marriage is always her fault, apparently.

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