] I find it highly amusing that the tendencies of male and female leisure time activities have remained basically the same. Men love sports, women talking with each other, nothing has changed to generalize it.

The one that struck me was the idea of shopping as a form of female R&R. Some things really haven't changed!

] The debating societies intrigued me. I enjoyed one Georgian discussion topic especially: “Does the clause of Obedience in the marriage Ceremony , bind a wife to obey her Husband at all times?”

Yes, it makes you realize that even in that era when women were supposedly happy with the status quo because they didn't know anything else, there were people asking questions like this!