Some eminent women of our times : short biographical sketches / by Mrs. Henry Fawcett.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fawcett, Millicent Garrett, Dame, 1847-1929
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Macmillan, 1889.
Subjects:
Women > Biography.
Women > Great Britain > Biography.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:viii, 231 pages ; 19 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Elizabeth Fry
  • Mary Carpenter
  • Caroline Herschel
  • Sarah Martin
  • Mary Somerville
  • Queen Victoria
  • Harriet Martineau
  • Florence Nightingale
  • Mary Lamb
  • Agnes Elizabeth Jones
  • Charlotte and Emily Brontë
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Lady Sale and her fellow-hostages in Afghanistan
  • Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Jane Austen
  • Maria Edgeworth
  • Queen Louisa of Prussia
  • Dorothy Wordsworth
  • Sister Dora
  • Mrs. Barbauld
  • Joanna Baillie
  • Hannah More
  • The American abolitionists: Prudence Crandall and Lucretia Mott.