A Map of the Open Country of Woman's Heart

Beauty, Virtue and Vice: Images of Women in Nineteenth-Century American Prints:  repetition of certain kinds of representations of women reveals how mainstream society thought about women and suggests their place in the world.   According to this map, Love is at the center of a woman's heart, and Sentimentality and Sentiment (including Good Sense, Discrimination, Hope, Enthusiasm, and Platonic Affection) take up a sizeable portion of the entire territory. This region of Sentiment and Sentimentality is separated from the larger, treacherous areas of a woman's heart: Selfishness and Coquetry pose dangers, especially to gentleman travelers, and these attributes suggest that all women are basically untrustworthy. The largest regions, Love of Admiration, Love of Dress, and Love of Display, all suggest that women are also essentially shallow and frivolous. 

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Description: "Map" is in the shape of a heart. Surrounding the Heart are the "COUNTRY OF SOLID WORTH," the "LAND OF OBLIVION," the "SEA OF WEALTH" and the "COUNTRY OF ELIGIBLENESS." Canals, Roads, a "Rail Road," and Rivers run between the "LOVE OF ADMIRATION," the "LOVE OF DISPLAY," the "LOVE OF DRESS," the "Region of SENTIMENT," etc. At the center is the "City and District / OF LOVE."

 "THE OPEN COUNTRY OF / WOMAN'S HEART, / Exhibiting its internal communications, and the facilities and dangers to Travellers therein.

" Features of map are labeled as follows:

 "COUNTRY OF SOLID WORTH"

 "LAND OF OBLIVION"

 "COUNTRY OF ELIGIBLENESS"

 "SEA OF WEALTH"

 "City and District / OF LOVE" 

"PATIENCE / Canal"

 "Region of / SENTIMENT"

 "HOPE"

 "ENTHUSIASM"

 "GOOD SENSE"

 "DISCRIMI-/NATION"

 "PRUDENCE

" "PLATONIC / AFFECTION"

 "FRIEND SHIP"

 "Dandy's Rest" 

"R. of Passive Musings"

 "R. Novel Reading"

 "Plain of / Susceptibility"

 "Land of / LOVE OF DRESS"

 "Pyramids of Fashion"

 "Feather Hill" "

Satin Plains"

 "R. Drain the Purse"

 "Cashmere Tambourtin"

 "Bonnet Ridge"

 "Land of / LOVE OF DISPLAY"

 "Belles Maisons"

 "Promentory of / Golden Fetters"

 "Old Man's / Darling Bay"

 "Bay of Establishment" 

"Jewelry Inlet"

 "Land of / LOVE OF ADMIRATION

" "Mole / Traps

 "Province of / Deception"

 "Rail Road - distance performed with incredible speed"

 "Beauxton" "R. Flattery

" "Lake of / Self Concern"

 "AFFECTATION" 

"Testing ground / of Uncertainty" 

"Land of / COQUETRY"

 "Caprice

" "Fickleness"

 "Labarinth [sic] of / False Hopes" 

"Town of / Lady's Privilege"

 "City of / Moi-Meme"

 "R. Indulgence - Steam Boat Communication with Moimeme"

 "Land of / SELFISHNESS" "District No. 1.