History of the Encyclopædia Britannica the criteria by which the articles were sorted were not obvious even to scholars, despite Dr. Adler's claims that the sorting followed naturally from the "Propædia's" outline of all knowledge. In 1985, the "Britannica" responded to reader requests by restoring the index as a two-volume set. The number of topics indexed by the "Britannica" has fluctuated from 500,000 (1985, the same as in 1954) to 400,000 (1989,1991) to 700,000 in the current 2007 print version. Presumably, this recent increase reflects the introduction of efficient electronic indexing, since the size of the encyclopedia has remained nearly constant at approximately 40 million
Young Lucretia and Other Stories The submissive woman is defined by her marital status, often relying upon marriage to help her fulfill her household duties. This explains the preoccupation with marriage in many of Mary Wilkins Freeman's stories. For example, in “How Fidelia Went to the Store”, the women are extremely focused on preparing for Cynthy's wedding. In the same way, in stories such as “The Dickey Boy” and “Where Sarah Jane's Doll Went”, characters are identified according to their marital status. The second type of woman is one who becomes dominant in the household either due to the absence of men or willfully in