- Description
- 1 online resource ([3], 448 p., [31] leaves of plates) : ill., ports.
- Series Statement
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Women: Transnational Networks
- Uniform Title
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Women: Transnational Networks.
- Subject
- Note
- Reproduction of the original from the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Harvard University.
- Contents
- Agrippina : a wicked woman, a devoted mother -- Aspasia : the inspiration of Pericles -- Cornelia : mother of the Gracchi -- Cleopatra : the world's most famous beauty -- Hypatia : the female philosopher of Alexandria -- Empress Theodora : the great empress of the East -- Zenobia : the empress of Palmyra -- Katherine of Aragon : heroine of the most famous divorce -- Anne Boleyn : a martyred queen of Henry VIII -- Mary Tudor : "Bloody Mary," the maker of martyrs -- Mary Queen of Scots : a victim of her own intrigues -- Lady Jane Grey : a nine days' queen -- Queen Anne : commonplace queen of a majestic era -- Queen Elizabeth : "Good Queen Bess," "The Virgin Queen" -- Catherine II of Russia : the Semiramis of the North -- Queen Christina of Sweden : a royal wanderer in Europe -- Isabella of Castile : the financier of Columbus' great voyage -- Maria Theresa of Austria : the true founder of the Austrian empire -- Marie Antoinette : the diamond necklace and the guillotine -- Charlotte Corday : the avenger of Marie Antoinette -- Empress Josephine : the discarded wife of Emperor Napoleon -- Hortense Bonaparte, Queen of Holland : a milliner's apprentice and a queen -- Queen Louise of Prussia : a nation's immortal idol -- Catherine de Medici : a royal dispenser of poisons -- Madame Roland : priestess of the Revolution -- Queen Victoria : the most splendid monarch of the nineteenth century -- Countess Du Barry : the ruler of Louis XV -- Countess of Blessington : an English saloniste -- Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland : a type of vampire -- Madame du Deffand : the blind ruler of a famous salon -- Ninon de L'Enclos : a typical Parisian parasite -- Madame Recamier : the beauty of the French salons -- Marquise de Pompadour : the most splendid adventuress -- Madame de Maintenon : the wife of a hunchback and of a king -- Madame de Stael : the wit of French salons -- Sarah Jennings : the Duchess of Marlborough : "the viceroy over Queen Anne" -- Mlle de la Valliere : heroine of a royal romance -- Theodosia Burr : whose fate is an unsolved mystery -- Susan B. Anthony : a life-long champion of woman's rights -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton : a wife, mother and eminent suffragist -- Lucy Stone : a champion of liberty for slaves and for women --
- Julia Ward Howe : author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic -- Florence Nightingale : the English soldier's angel of mercy -- Clara Barton : the American Florence Nightingale -- Frances E. Willard : the effective foe of intemperance -- Anne Hutchinson : an early defender of free speech -- Lucretia Mott : a Quaker preacher of freedom's truths -- Mary Baker Eddy : the founder of a new faith -- Harriet Martineau : the writer of political romance -- Charlotte Cushman : America's most famous tragedienne -- Nell Gwyn : "Pretty Nelly," the orange girl -- Jenny Lind : "the Swedish Nightingale" -- Madame Ristorie : "the Columbus of Italian dramatic art" -- Mrs. Siddons : "the tragic muse" -- "Peg" Woffington: "Queen of all hearts" -- Sarah Bernhardt : a stage idol for fifty years -- Adelina Patti : the queen of song -- Louisa May Alcott : the "Jo" of "Little women" -- Jane Austen : a brilliant chronicler of the commonplace -- Rosa Bonheur : the friend and painter of animals -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning : a poet and a poet's bride -- Mary Ann Evans : "George Eliot," England's most famous woman novelist -- Margaret Fuller : an inspired conversationalist -- Charlotte Bronte : the creator of "Jane Eyre" -- Harriet Beecher Stowe : the little woman who caused a big war -- Madame Dudevant : the "George Sand" of French fiction -- Madame de la Ramee : the "Ouida" beloved of school girls -- Helen Hunt Jackson : the Indian's devoted friend -- Mary Lamb : the gentle humorist's adoring sister -- Frances Trollope : whose book on America enraged a nation -- Martha Washington : the original "First Lady of the land" -- Dolly Madison : the White House heroine of 1812 -- Joan of Arc : seer, soldier, leader of men, martyr.
- OCLC
- Author
Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John), 1863-1934.
- Title
Notable women in history [electronic resource] : the lives of women who in all ages, all lands and in all womanly occupations have won fame and put their imprint on the world's history / by Willis J. Abbot.
- Imprint
Philadelphia, Pa. : J.C. Winston Co., 1913.
- Series
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Women: Transnational Networks
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Women: Transnational Networks.
- Connect to: