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1st century A. D. Plutarch. Mulierum Virtutes (Concerning the virtues of women) 1: 340-84 in Plutarch's Morals Translated from the Greek by Several Hands. Edited by William W. Goodwin. Introduction by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Rev. ed. 2 vols. New York: Athenaeum, 1870.
See How To Make It as a Woman, 117.
1361-75. Boccaccio, Giovanni. De Claris Mulieribus / Concerning Famous Women. Translated by Guido A. Guarino. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1963.
1372-86. Chaucer, Geoffrey. “The Legend of Good Women.” In The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Edited by F. N. Robinson, 480-518. 2d ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961.
1405. Pizan, Christine de. The Book of the City of Ladies [Le Livre de la cité des dames]. Translated by Earl Jeffrey Richards. New York: Persea, 1982.
1443-47. Bokenham, Osbern. A Legend of Holy Women [Legendys of Hooly Wummen]. South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1992.
1521. [Ravisius, Textor]. De Memorabilibus et claris mulieribus aliquot diversorum scriptorum opera. Paris.
ca. 1610-15. The Lives of Women Saints of Our Contrie England, Also some other lives of holie women written by some of the auncient fathers. Early English Text Society. London: Trubner, 1886.
1624. Heywood, Thomas. Gynaikeion: or, Nine Bookes of Various History Concerninge Women: inscribed by ye names of ye nine muses. London: Adam Islip.
See How To Make It as a Woman, 26-27.
British Library.
Also published anonymously: The Nine Muses , 1700. "Index or Table" outlines "Nine Bookes" of feminine types of different portions of fact and myth, including Nemesis, Fortune, Ceres, Minerva, Sybils, Semiramis, Cleopatra, and Queen Elizabeth, the latter addressed thus: "that as you are the last of these in this my Catalogue by order, posterity may reckon you the first amongst the Illustrious by merit" (125). Heywood addresses the reader: "setting so many statues of honour before your eyes . . . . everie of you [may] fashion her selfe as complete a woman for vertue, as Apelles made up the purtraiture of his godesse, for beautie" (118-19).
1639. Rivers, George. The Heroinae; or, The Lives of Arria, Paulina, Lucretia, Dido, Theutilla, Cypriana, Aretaphila. London: Printed by R. Bishop, for John Colby.
1640. Heywood, Thomas. The Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts of Nine of the Most Worthy Women of the World: Three Iewes, Three Gentiles, Three Christians. London: Printed by Thomas Cotes, for Richard Royston.
See How To Make It as a Woman, 26-27.
TOC: Deborah; Judith; Esther; Bunduca [various spellings of Boadicea]; Penthisilaea; Artemisia; Elpheda; Queen Margaret (wife of Henry VI); Queen Elizabeth.
British Library. See Robert Burton [i.e. Nathaniel Crouch], who continues the format of nine types after 1688. Perhaps modeled on Richard Johnson, The Nine Worthies of London (1592). See Burton, The History of the Nine Worthies of the World (1687).
1642. Scudéry, Madeleine de. Les Femmes illustres ou les Harangues heroïques. English ed: The Female Orators; or, The Courage and Constancy of Divers Famous Queens, and Illustrious Women, Set Forth in Their Eloquent Orations, and Noble Resolutions: Worthy the Perusal and Imitation of the Female Sex. English'd from the French edition of Monsieur de Scudéry. London: T. Tebb, 1714.
1647. Le Moyne, Pierre. Galerie de Femmes Fortes. English ed.: The Gallery of Heroick Women. Translated by Marquesse of Winchester [John Paulet]. London: by R. Norton for Henry Seile, 1652.
1651. Gerbier, Charles. Elogium Heroinum, the Ladies Vindication; or, The Praise of Worthy Women. London: Printed by T.M. & A.C. and sold by William Raybould.
1657. Gent, J. H. [Thomas Heywood]. The Generall History of Women, Containing the Lives of the Most Holy and Profane.... London: Printed by W. H. for W. H..
A reissue of Gynaikeion.
1665. Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeille, Seigneur de. Le Livre des dames English ed.: The Book of the Ladies; or, Lives of Illustrious Dames. Reprinted as The Book of the Ladies (Illustrious Dames): With Elucidations on Some of Those Ladies by C.A. Sainte-Beuve. Translated by Katherine Prescott Wormeley. Illustrated with Portraits from the Original. London: W. Heinemann, 1899. Boston: Hardy, Pratt, 1902. Reprint ed. George Knottesford Fortescue, Boston: Millet, 1909. Reprinted as Illustrious Dames of the Court of the Valois Kings. New York: Lamb Publishing, 1912 Lives of Gallant Ladies: Suggestive Stories for Lovers. Paris, [1935].
1671. A Catalogue of Virtuous Women.
1686. [Shirley, John]. The Illustrious History of Women. London: J. Harris.
1687. Burton, Robert. [i.e., Nathaniel Crouch] The History of the Nine Worthies of the World. London: Crouch, 1703; 1727. Other publishers: 1738; 1759; 1776.
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1688. Burton, Robert. [i.e. Nathaniel Crouch] Female Excellency; or, The Ladies Glory: Illustrated in the Worthy Lives and Memorable Actions of Nine Famous Women, Who Have Been Renowned Either for Virtue or Valour in Several Ages of the World. London: Nathaniel Crouch, 1688. 2d ed., London, 1704. 3d ed., London: Bettesworth & Batley, 1728. 4th ed., Burton, The Female Worthies; or, the Ladies['] Glory. Dublin: Cross, 1765.
One British Library copy, 3rd ed. 1728, includes frontispiece and poem: an angel with trumpet and book, standing on a stone resting on a rectangular block, the wings and drapery having been painted green. "A Woman often representeth Fame: I Nine present, and all of worthy Name. For Virtue or for Valour all Renown'd,/ whose glorious Fame doth through the World resound./ Whereby 'tis evident that Woman can/ Equal, if not exceed, the Deeds of Man./ Read, and then judge impartially their Cause,/ No doubt my Heroines will gain Applause." All the woodcuts in this copy have been colored--perhaps yellow (for hair and crown) and blue (for robes or armor), faded to green and light brown. 2nd copy British Library 3rd ed. incl. extra titlepage: "Illustrated/In the worthy Lives and memorable/Actions of Nine famous Women, who/ have been Renowned either for Virtue/or Valour, in several Ages of the World:/ Namely,/ I. Deborah, the Prophetess./ II. The valiant Judith./III. Queen Esther./IV. The Virtuous Susanna./V. The Chaste Lucretia./ VI. Voadica, Queen of Britain.[sic]/VII. Mariamne, Wife to K. Herod.[sic]/VIII. Clotilda, Queen of France./IX. Andegona, Princess of Spain./ The whole adorned with Poems, and the Picture of each Lady." Both copies of 3rd ed. incl. catalogue of books (1st copy: 28 books [pages missing]; 2nd copy: 35 books), in categories: History, Miscellanies, Divinity, @ 1 s. each. Overlap with Heywood Exemplary Lives = Deborah, Judith, Esther, and Voadica/Boadicea.
1726. The Lives and Amours of Queens and Royal Mistresses, with some Intrigues of Popes, Extracted from the Histories of England, France, Turkey, Spain and Italy. London: n.p., 1727.
1752. Ballard, George. Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain: Who Have Been Celebrated for Their Writings or Skill in the Learned Languages, Arts and Sciences. Oxford: Printed by W. Jackson, for the author. 2d ed., London: Printed for T. Evans, 1775. Reprint edited by Ruth Perry. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1985.
1752. Serviez, Jacques Roergas de. The Roman empresses; or, the history of the lives and secret intrigues of the wives of the twelve Cæsars . . . Translated by Bysse Molesworth. Dublin: George Faulkner. Title variant: The Roman empresses; or, the history of the lives and secret intrigues of the wives of the twelve Caesars; of those of the other Roman emperors, and of the princesses of their blood. In which are introduced the most remarkable transactions of the roman history: collected from ancient authors Greek and Latin. With historical and critical notes. London: R. Dodsley.
See 1899 and early twentieth-century editions below (item 714).
1755. Amory, Thomas. Memoirs: Containing the Lives of Several Ladies of Great Britain. A History of Antiquities, Productions of Nature, and Monuments of Art. [etc.] London: John Noon.
A generic grab-bag, possibly identical to the following. The title echoes Ballard's first edition three years earlier.
1755. Amory, Thomas. Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain. Interspersed with Literary Reflexions, and Accounts of Curious Things.
Borrows from Ballard. Other titles: The Female Worthies and Memoirs of Eminent Ladies.
1766. Biographium faemineum: The Female Worthies; or, Memoirs of the Most Illustrious Ladies, of All Ages and Nations, who Have Been Eminently Distinguished for Their Magnanimity, Learning, Genius, Virtue, Piety, and Other Excellent Endowments...Containing (Exclusive of Foreigners) the Lives of above Fourscore British Ladies...Collected from History, and the Most Approved Biographers, and Brought Down to the Present Time... 2 vols. London: Printed for S. Crowder, and J. Payne.
1770. Stretch, L. M. The Beauties of History; or, Pictures of Virtue and Vice, Drawn from Real Life: Designed for the Instruction and Entertainment of Youth. 2. vols. London: for author. 2d ed., Dublin: Marchbank, 1775. 3d ed., London: E. & C. Dilly, 1777. 5th ed., London, 1782; 1787; 1794; 1802; 1813; 1815; 1833.
British Library.
1772. La Roche-Guilhen, Anne, Mlle de. The History of Female Favourites: Of Mary de Cadilla...Livia...Julia Farnesa...Agnes Soreau...and Nantilda... Amsterdam: 1697; London: Printed for C. Parker.
1777. Gibbons, Thomas. Memoirs of Eminently Pious Women, Who Were Ornaments of Their Sex, Blessings to Their Countries and Edifying Examples to the Church and World. 2 vols. [ London: Backland ].
1799. Pilkington, Mary Hopkins. Biography for Girls; or, Moral and Instructive Examples for Young Ladies. London: Vernon & Hood. Subtitle variant: or, Moral and Instructive Examples for the Female Sex. 3d ed., London, 1800. 4th ed., Philadelphia: Johnson & Warner, 1809.
See How To Make It as a Woman, 67.
1803. Eccentric Biography; or, Memoirs of Remarkable Female Characters, Ancient and Modern. Including Actresses, Adventurers, Authoresses, Fortune-Tellers, Gipsies, Dwarfs, Swindlers and Vagrants: Also Many Others who Have Distinguished Themselves by Their Chastity, Dissipation, Intrepidity, Learning, Abstinence, Credulity, &c., &c.: Alphabetically Arranged: Forming a Pleasing Mirror of Reflection to the Female Mind. Ornamented with Portraits of the Most Singular Characters in the Work. London: Printed by J. Cundee, sold by T. Hurst. Worcester, [MA]: Printed by Isaiah Thomas, 1804. With title variant: Eccentric Biography: Or . . . Modern. Including Princesses, Duchesses . . . Illustrated. 2d American ed., Worcester: I. Thomas, for Homans, Boston, 1805.
British Library. 1803 edition: 96 subjects, including Corday [shortened version of Hays], Astell, Behn, Centlivre, Roland, Mrs. Wollstonecraft Godwin, Joan of Arc, “Alice, an American slave who lived to be 116 (with portrait)” (Stuart Bennett, An Eighth Mill Valley Miscellany, Catalogue XXXVIII, item 197). Frontispiece of Joan; 7 other illus. “First published as part of Eccentric Biography; or, sketches of remarkable characters, ancient and modern. Here the articles relating to women have been separated and added to,” James Burmeister, English Books 1675-1900 : Catalogue 48 (4 Dec 2000), 8.
1803. Gibbons, Thomas, and Daniel Dana. Memoirs of Eminently Pious Women: Who Were Ornaments to Their Sex, Blessings to Their Families, and Edifying Examples to the Church and World. Abridged from the Large Work of Dr. Gibbons, London by Daniel Dana. Newburyport, [MA]: Printed for the Subscribers by Angier March.
1803. Hays, Mary. Female Biography; or, Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of All Ages and Countries, Alphabetically Arranged. 6 vols. London: R. Phillips. 1st American ed., 3 vols., Philadelphia: Birch & Small; Fry & Kammerer, 1807.
See How To Make It as a Woman, 32, 67.
British Library.
1803. [Stewarton]. The Female Revolutionary Plutarch: Containing Biographical, Historical, and Revolutionary Sketches, Characters, and Anecdotes/by the Author of “The Revolutionary Plutarch” and “Memoirs of Talleyrand.” 3 vols. London: Printed by J. Harding for J. Murray, 1806. 3d ed., London: Murray, 1808.
1808 dedication: "These volumes/ are inscribed/to the revered memory/of/ Marie Antoinette Josephe Jeanne,/ Archduchess of Austria,/ Queen of France and Navarre;/Daughter, Sister, and Aunt/ of/ Emperors and Kings;/A/ Lamented Victim/ of the Inhospitable Rage/and/ Ferocious Character/ of/ Revolutionary Frenchmen./ Legitimate Sovereigns,/ and/ Loyal Subjects,/ Her/ Murder/ Is Still Unrevenged!!!" Vol. I: Josephine Buonaparte, Josephine Dessalines the revolutionary Empress of Hayti, Madame Recamier, The Countess de Villeneuve de la Foret, Madame de Stael, Marianne des Hayes, Madame de Genlis, Maria Farbe, Annette La Vigne, Martha Glar, with other topical chapters. Portraits of A. C. Renaud and the Queen of Prussia, published in 1807 by Oddy, have been added at the end of vol. I without any apparent relevance to the contents.
1804. Betham, Mary Matilda [1776-1852]. A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country. London: Printed for B. Crosby; Tegg and Castleman; and E. Lloyd, Betham, and Warde, Printers.
Aunt of Matilda Barbara Betham-Edwards, Bethan is included as a subject in the latter's Six Life Studies of Famous Women (1880). Various collections list this title as A Biographical Dictionary of Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country (i.e. without "the"), and Crosby's name alone as publisher.
1804. Jerment, Rev. George, ed. Memoirs of Eminently Pious Women, Who Were Ornaments of Their Sex, Blessings to Their Countries and Edifying Examples to the Church and World by Thomas Gibbons. Revised ed. 2 vols. London: Ogle.
See How To Make It as a Woman, 52-53.
TOC: vol. I (22 subjects): Lady Jane Grey; Catharine Parr; Jane, Queen of Navarre; Queen Mary; Countess of Suffolk; Lady Mary Armyne; Lady Elizabeth Langham; Countess of Warwick; Lady Elizabeth Brooke; Mrs. Margaret Andrews; Lady Alice Lucy; Lady Margaret Houghton; Mrs. Ann Baynard; Lady Frances Hobart; the Right Hon. the Lady Cutts; the Right Hon. the Lady Elizabeth Hastings; Mrs. Jane Ratcliffe; Mrs. Catherine Breterg; Lady Rachel Russell; Mrs. Elizabeth Burnet; Mrs. Elizabeth Bury; Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe. vol. II (26 subjects): Mrs. Joan Drake; Lady Falkland; Lady Halket; Mrs. Rebecca Combe; Mrs. Gertrude Clarkson; Mrs. Mary Terry; Elizabeth West; Mrs. Ann Dutton; Mrs. Housman; Mrs. Hannah Woodd [sic]; Miss Gray; Miss Sarah Manwaring; Mrs. Margert Magdelene Althens; Lady Henrietta Hope; Lady Glenorchy; Lady Huntingdon; Mrs. Talbot; Mrs. Campbell; Lady Burford; Mrs. Isabella Brander; Mrs. Middleton; Miss Henrietta Neale; Mrs. Walker; Mrs. Humphreys; Mrs. Hutchinson; Mrs. Grace Bennet.
Second volume by Rev. George Jerment. Preface by George Jerment dated Weston Place, May 23, 1804: "among the British writers on this subject, the late Dr. Gibbons holds the most eminent place. His two volumes are here compressed into one, the less important or extraneous matter in his collection being omitted. Some, though very few, of the lives in his volumes are, for the same reason, entirely left out" (ital in orig; x). Jerment used "various sources" for second volume, and only wrote a few himself. Whereas Gibbons's original 2-vol. work included only subjects who were English and "in high life," Jerment's second volume includes "NINE Scots women, of various ranks, who were remarkably pious" (x-xi). 2 pp. catalogue at end: Ogle in London, Glasgow; Ogle and Aikin, Edinburgh, mostly sermons.
See Gibbons (1777), Gibbons and Dana (1803), and Burder, Gibbons, and Jerment (1815).
1804. Pilkington, Mary Hopkins. Memoirs of Celebrated Female Characters Who Have Distinguished Themselves By Their Talents and Virtues in Every Age and Nation: Containing the Most Extensive Collection of Illustrious Examples of Excellence Ever Published. In which the Virtuous and the Vicious are Painted in Their True Colours. Embellished with Portraits. [London]: Albion.
1807. Fraser, Donald, comp. The Mental Flower Garden; or, an Instructive and Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex. In Two Parts. Containing: 1. A Variety of Entertaining and Moral Dialogues, Partly Original, Calculated for Misses from Eight to Twelve Years. A Collection of Useful Rules Relative to Genteel Behaviour, and a Polite Address. Poetic Pieces. Devotional Poems, Writing Pieces, &c.. 2. Miscellaneous Essays, Worthy the Perusal of Women, at any Period of Life. To Which Are Added, Interesting Sketches of Female Biography... Danbury, CT: Douglas & Nichols, 1800. New York: Southwick & Hardcast, 1807.
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1807. Pilkington, Mary Hopkins. Memoirs of Celebrated Women of England: Including Also Those Who Have Distinguished Themselves by Their Talents and Virtues in Every Age and Nation: Containing the Most Extensive Collection of Illustrious Examples of Feminine Excellence Ever Published : In Which the Virtuous and the Vicious Are Painted in Their True Colours. London: Albion.
1810. Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women, Exemplifying Their Character and Condition in Various Ages and Nations. With miscellaneous poems. Boston: Wells & Wait.
Although none of the works by Aikin is strictly a female multibiography, Aikin was a model for later women writing biographical histories.
1815. Burder, Samuel, Thomas Gibbons, and George Jerment. Memoirs of Eminently Pious Women of the British Empire. New ed., embellished with eighteen portraits, corr. and enl. by the Rev. Samuel Burder. 3 vols. in 1. London: Ogles. Philadelphia: J. J. Woodward, 1834; 1835; 1836.
“What is now comprised in the 1st vol. was compiled by Dr. Gibbons, and published in 1777, in two vol., and republished in 1804, with some . . . omissions. The 2nd vol. . . . was compiled by the Rev. George Jerment, and published with the former, as an additional vol. . . . Memoirs [which] form the 3rd vol. . . . appear under the . . . present ed. for the 1st time, in a collected form” (Preface, viii). See Sharp, 1822, Bacon, 1833, and Burder, 1835, below.
1817. Cox, Francis Augustus. Female Scripture Biography: Including an Essay on what Christianity Has Done for Women. 2 vols., New York: James Eastburn. Boston: Lincoln & Edmands, 1831. 2d ed., London: John Snow, 1852.
Bodleian
1818. Aikin, Lucy. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown. 2 vols., 1819; 1821; 1826.
1821. Hays, Mary. Memoirs of Queens: Illustrious and Celebrated. London: Allman.
1821. [Roberts, Mary.] Select Female Biography: Comprising Memoirs of Eminent British Ladies, Derived from Original and Other Authentic Sources. London: Arch. 2d ed., London: Harvey & Darton, 1829.
British Library.
1822. Aikin, Lucy. Memoirs of the Court of King James the First. Boston: Wells & Lilly.
1822. Belson, Mary [afterwards Elliott]. Female Biography; or, Virtue and Talent Exemplified in the Characters of Eminent British Females. London: Darton.
A children's writer (many works with animal themes) published by Darton in the early nineteenth century.
1822. Sharp, T., and John Stanford. The Heavenly Sisters; or, Biographical Sketches of the Lives of Thirty Eminently Pious Females, Partly Extracted from the Works of Gibbon, Germont, and Others, and Partly Original: Designed for the Use of Females in General, and Particularly Recommended for the Use of Ladies' Schools. To which is Added, a Memoir of Mrs. Abigail, Wife of the Late President Adams, and a Sketch of the Active Life of Mrs. Sarah Hoffman. New Haven, CT: N. Whiting.
1825. Dyce, Alexander. Specimens of British poetesses; selected and chronologically arranged.
1825. Taft, Zachariah. Biographical Sketches of the Lives and Public Ministry of Various Holy Women: Whose Eminent Usefulness and Successful Labours in the Church of Christ Have Entitled Them to Be Enrolled among the Great Benefactors of Mankind: In which Are Included Several Letters from the Rev. J. Wesley Never before Published. 2 vols. London: Kershaw. Leeds: 1825; 1828. 3 vols. in 1, London: Kershaw, 1835; 1838.
1826-27. Prudhomme, Louis Marie. Repertoire universel, historique, biographique des femmes célèbres, mortes ou vivantes. Paris. Title variant: mortes ou vivantes, qui se sont fait remarquer dans toutes les nations, par leurs vertus leur genie... Paris: Lebigre. 1830.
See the collections with associated titles by Clark, Clayton, Betham, Hays, James, Junot, Sainte-Beuve, below. Like others of the many collective biographies of women in French, this was not directly translated into English. French sources frequently replenished the English catalogues. Prudhomme co-authored Les crimes des reines de France: depuis le commencement de la monarchie jusqu'à Marie-Antoinette with Louise Félicité Guinement de Keralio Robert and Laurent-Pierre Bérenger (Paris: Au bureau des Révolutions de Paris; Lyon : Chez Prudhomme aîné, 1791).
1827. Lee, Anna Maria. Memoirs of Eminent Female Writers, of All Ages and Countries. Philadelphia: J. Grigg.
1828. Hemans, Felicia. Records of Woman: With Other Poems. Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little & Wilkins; Edinburgh: W. Blackwood; London: T. Cadell.
Abbot, Willis John. Notable Women of History: 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. Philadelphia: John C. Winston; London: Greening, 1913. London, 1914.
See How To Make It as a Woman, 250-51, 253, 263-64.
TOC: Agrippina; Aspasia; Cornelia; Cleopatra; Hypatia; Empress Theodora; Zenobia; Katherine of Aragon; Anne Boelyn; Mary Tudor; Mary Queen of Scots; Lady Jane Grey; Queen Anne; Queen Elizabeth; Catherine II of Russia; Christina, Queen of Sweden; Isabella of Castile; Maria Theresa of Austria; Marie Antoinette; Charlotte Corday; Empress Josephine; Hortense Bonaparte, Queen of Holland; Louise, Queen of Prussia; Catherine de Medici; Mme Roland; Queen Victoria; Countess du Barry,; Countess of Blessington; Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland; Mme du Deffand; Ninon de L'Enclos; Mme Recamier; Marquise de Pompadour; Mme de Maintenon; Mme de Stael; Sarah Jennings, Duchess of Marlborough; Mlle De la Valliere; Theodosia Burr; Susan B. Anthony; Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Lucy Stone; Julia Ward Howe; Florence Nightingale; Clara Barton; Frances E. Willard; Anne Hutchinson; Lucretia Mott; Mary Baker Eddy; Harriet Martineau; Charlotte Cushman; Nell Gwyn; Jenny Lind; Mme Ristori; Mrs. Siddons; Peg Woffington; Sarah Bernhardt; Adelina Patti; Louisa May Alcott; Jane Austen; Rosa Bonheur; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Mary Ann Evans; Margaret Fuller; Charlotte Bronte; Harriet Beecher Stowe; George Sand; Mme Dudevant; Mme de la Ouida Ramee; Helen Hunt Jackson; Mary Lamb; Frances Trollope; Martha Washington; Dolly Madison; Joan of Arc. *Pop Chart
Adams, Charles, and Daniel P. Kidder. Women of the Bible. New York: Lane & Scott for Sunday-School Union; Carlton & Phillips; Phillips & Hunt; Cincinnati, OH: Walden & Stowe, 1851; 1854. 4th ed., New York: Carlton & Porter, Sunday School Union, 1856; 1868.
Recurrent title and type of collection.
Adams, Charlotte Hannah. Women of Ancient Israel. New York: National Board of the YWCA, 1912; 1913. 3d ed., 1916.
“Written as a textbook for teachers in Bible study, this book discusses the lives of important women of the Old Testament.”
Adams, Elmer Cleveland, and Warren Dunham Foster. Heroines of Modern Progress. New York: Sturgis & Walton; Macmillan, 1913; Sturgis, 1915; 1918; 1921; 1922; 1926; 1939.
See How To Make It as a Woman, 136, 147-149.
TOC: Elizabeth Fry; Mary Lyon; Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Florence Nightingale; Clara Barton; Julia Ward Howe; Francis W. Willard; J. Ellen Foster; Jane Addams. *Pop Chart
Adams, Henry Gardiner, ed. Cyclopaedia of Female Biography: Consisting of Sketches of All Women Who Have Been Distinguished by Great Talents, Strength of Character, Piety, Benevolence, or Moral Virtue of Any Kind; Forming a Complete Record of Womanly Excellence or Ability. London: Groombridge, 1857. Glasgow: Forrester, Stockwell, 1866. London: Routledge, 1869.
See How To Make It as a Woman, 206.
Borrows from Hale; British Library lists it under Hale. Frontispiece: vignettes of Lady Jane Grey, "Lady W. Russell," Hannah More, and Felicia Hemans cluster around a doubly crowned Victoria. Includes many standard subjects; presenters such as Anna Jameson, Grace Aguilar, Sarah Hale, Elizabeth Ellet, Agnes Strickland; and Fuller, Martineau, a lengthy biography of Sarah Martin, Ann Judson, the Maid of Saragossa, etc.
Adams, William Henry Davenport. Celebrated Englishwomen of the Victorian Era. 2 vols., London: F. V. White, 1881; 1884; 1900.
See How To Make It as a Woman, 249, 263, 266-68.
TOC: Victoria; Harriet Martineau; Charlotte Bronte; Mary Russell Mitford; Mary Somerville; Sara Coleridge; Mary Carpenter; Anne Adelaide Procter; Marian George Eliot Evans; Jane Welsh Carlyle. *Pop Chart
Of 29 collections by Adams listed in Riches, 7 are all-female. Bodleian catalogue lists 33 biographical collections, among 117 volumes by Adams (including seafaring adventures, histories of battles), plus 30 volumes that he edited or translated. Characteristic works include Round the World with the Union Jack (London, 1894) and The Secret of Success (London, 1879). Records of Noble Lives (London, etc.: Nelson, 1867), presents Sydney, Bacon, Robert Blake, George Monk, Duke of Albemarle, William Penn, and Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills [explorers]: "some noble Englishmen, for the special instruction and entertainment of English boys." Adams claims to be "a gatherer and disposer of other men's facts," and hopes to urge boys "to lead a true and noble life" (iii-v).
---. Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century. London: Sonnenschein, 1883; 1887; 1889; 1903; 1906. New York: Dutton, 1903.
TOC: Countess Dora d'Istria; The Princess of Belgiojoso; Madame Hommaire de Hell; Madame Léonie d'Aunet; Miss Frederika Bremer; Mademoiselle Alexina Tinné; Madame Ida Pfeiffer; Madame de Bourboulon; Lady Hester Stanhope; Lady Brassey; Lady Morgan; Mrs. Trollope; Miss Harriet Martineau; Miss Isabella Bird; Lady Florence Dixie; Miss Gordon Cumming; Florence and Rosamond Hill; Lady Barker; “Magyarland.”
---. Child-Life and Girlhood of Remarkable Women: A Series of Chapters from Female Biography. 2d ed., London: Sonnenschein, 1883; 1885; Sonnenschein & Lowery, 1887. Illustrated. New York: Dutton; London: Sonnenschein, 1895.
TOC: Harriet Martineau; Fanny Burney; Elizabeth Inchbald; Charlotte Bronte; Sara Coleridge; Mrs. Somerville; Mary Russell Mitford; Lady Morgan; Lady Jane Grey; Mrs. Hutchinson; Mary Sidney Countess of Pembroke; Margaret More Roper; Mary Granville; Lady Montagu; Mary Wortley; Katharine Philips; Laetitia Pilkington; Elizabeth Rowe; Catherine of Siena; Joan of Arc; Mme de Miramion; Elizabeth Carter; Caroline Herschel; Mme Pape-Carpantier; Mrs.Fry; Lady Fanshawe; Mrs. Godolphin; Mme Roland; Mme Michelet; Eugenie de Guerin. *Pop Chart
British Library.
---. Exemplary Women: A Record of Feminine Virtues and Achievements. London: 1882.
Bodleian Abridged from Woman's Work and Worth.
---. Famous Beauties and Historic Women: A Gallery of Croquis Biographiques. 2 vols., London: C. J. Skeet, 1865.
TOC: vol I: Nell Gwynne; Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland; Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess de Grammont; Frances Stewart, Duchess of Hamilton; Henrietta Maria, Duchess of Orleans; Madame de Maintenon; Gabrielle d'Estrée, Duchess de Beaufort. vol II : Mrs. Radcliffe; The Duchess de la Vallière; Madame de Staël; Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough; Agnes Sorel; Madame Récamier. *Pop Chart
Bodleian
---. Some Historic Women; or, Biographical Studies of Women Who Have Made History. London: J. Hogg, [1891]; [1890-99}.
TOC: pt. 1. Woman as Patriot: Joan of Arc (Jeanne Darc); Mme Roland; pt. 2. Woman as the Religious Enthusiast: Margaret, Queen of Scotland; St. Elizabeth, Queen of Hungary; St. Catherine of Siena; pt. 3. Woman as an Example of Fidelity: Lady Arabella Stuart; pt. 4:.Woman as Sovereign: Margaret of Anjou; Jeanne D'Albret, Queen of Navarre; Queen Elizabeth; Christina, Queen of Sweden; Maria Theresa, Empress of Germany; Louisa, Queen of Prussia. *Pop Chart
Bodleian
---. Stories of the Lives of Noble Women. London: T. Nelson, 1877.
Riches. 1880; 1882.
Riches. [1911].
Bodleian Same contents as The Sunshine, below, but adds Charlotte Brontë.
---. The Sunshine of Domestic Life; or, Sketches of Womanly Virtues, and Stories of the Lives of Noble Women. London: Nelson, 1867; 1868; 1869; 1873; 1876. Boston, 1882. London: 1891.
TOC: Anne Askew; Lady Vere; Lady Alicia Lisle; Elizabeth Gaunt; Elizabeth Inchbald; Lady Arabella Stuart; Lady Jane Grey; Mary Countess of Pembroke; Queen Jeanne d'Albret; Mme Roland. *Pop Chart
Bodleian Republished as Stories of the Lives of Noble Women in Nelson's Girls' Library.
---. Woman's Work and Worth in Girlhood, Maidenhood, and Wifehood: With hints on self culture and chapters on the higher education and employment of women. London: J. Hogg, 1879; 1880. New York: Cassell, Petter, Galpin, 1880; 1884. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1884.
Approximately 210 subjects. *Pop Chart
---. Women of Fashion and Representative Women in Letters and Society: A Series of Biographical and Critical Studies. 2 vols., London: Tinsley, 1878.
TOC: vol I: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu; The Duchess of Marlborough; Lady Morgan; Miss Berry. vol II: Madame d'Arblay; Mrs. Elizabeth Inchbald; The Countess of Blessington; Charlotte Bronté [sic]; Harriet Martineau.
Addition, Lucia H. Faxon. Twenty Eventful Years of the Oregon Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1880-1900: Statistical, Historical and Biographical Portraits of Pioneer Workers. Portland, OR: Gotshall, 1904.
Adelman, Joseph Ferdinand Gottlieb. Famous Women: An Outline of Feminine Achievement through the Ages, with Life Stories of Five Hundred Noted Women. New York: Ellis M. Lonow, 1926. New York: Rogers, Pictorial Review, Woman's World, 1928.
Adeney, Walter Frederic. Women of the New Testament. London: Service & Paton; J. Nisbet, 1899. London: J. Nisbet; New York: T. Whittaker, 1901; 1906.
Series: The popular Biblical library, v. 4; Variation: Women and the Church in America
Aguilar, Grace. The Women of Israel: or, Characters and Sketches from the Holy Scriptures and Jewish History, Illustrative of the Past History, Present Duties, and Future Destiny of the Hebrew Females, as Based on the Word of God. London: Groombridge, 1845.
Oldfield. 1853. New edn. Boston: Hickling, Swan & Brewer, 1857. 2 vols., New York and Philadelphia: Appleton, 1850; 1851; 1852; 1853; 1854; 1857; 1860; 1862; 1864; 1866. London: Groombridge, 1857. London: Groombridge; New York: Appleton, 1870.
Oldfield. London: Groombridge, 1871; 1872; 1873; 1874; 1875; 1876; 1878; 1879; 1881; 1884; 1886. New York: Appleton, 1871; 1874; 1875; 1878; 1879; 1881; 1883; 1887. London: Routledge; New York: Dutton, 1879. 1 vol., New York: Appleton; London: Routledge, 1889; 1891; 1892; 1897; [1900?]. New ed. New York: Appleton, 1907; 1913; 1917.
Bodleian Aguilar is the author fiction, notably, Woman's Friendship: A Story of Domestic Life (London: Groombridge; New York: Appleton, 1850), evidently in print in London until 1903, in New York until 1901. In 1870, Appleton issued her Works in nine volumes (7 vols., volumes 6 and 7 in two parts each)
Aikman, Duncan. Calamity Jane and the Lady Wildcats. New York: Holt, 1927.
Alec-Tweedie, Mrs. [Ethel]. Women the World Over: A Sketch Both Light and Gay, Perchance Both Dull and Stupid. London, 1914. New York: Doran, 1914, [1915].
A strange mixture of advice (“DON'T giggle” [2]), anthropology (illustrations of “Mother Love: Dakota Squaw and Child” facing 80), argument-by-example (e.g. lists of eminent women, 22), travel, and feminist argument for equal pay and work, written just before war broke out by a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Interspersed cartoons on changing manners in upper-class Western life; photographs of national female types (e.g. “A Japanese Type of Beauty” facing 72). The author herself poses like an odalisque “in Moorish dress” (frontis.). Index names many women. Related work by Alec-Tweedie: Women and Soldiers (London and New York: Lane, 1918), on women's work during WWI.
Alexander, Julia McGehee. Mothers of Great Men: Sketches. Charlotte, NC: Observer, 1916.
TOC: Mary Ball Washington, Mother of Washington; Margaret Cox Ruskin, Mother of John Ruskin; Margaret Aitken Carlyle, Mother of Thomas Carlyle; Susanna Annesley Wesley, Mother of John and Charles Wesley; Monica, Mother of Saint Augustine.
Glimpses of the mothers of many great men. Compare Sarah Ellis and others.
Alger, Rev. W. R. The Friendships of Women. 3d ed., Boston: Roberts, 1867; 1868; 1870; 1872; 1875; 1882; 1885.
Alldridge, Lizzie. Florence Nightingale. Frances Ridley Havergal. Catherine Marsh. Mrs. Ranyard (“L. N. R.”). London, Paris, New York, and Melbourne: Cassell, 1885; 1887; 1889; 1893. 3d ed., New York, 1887. 4th ed., New York, 1889. 5th ed., New York, 1890; 1893.
6th ed. as The World's Workers : [above names]. See Companion volumes by Browne and Tomkinson below.
The American Book of Beauty: with Illustrations on Steel, by Eminent Artists; Edited by a Lady. New York: Wilson, 1845. Subtitle variant: Or, Token of Friendship. Hartford, CT: Andrus, 1845.
See Cameron, 1904.
An American Lady [Ann Hasseltine Judson]. Sketches of the Lives of Distinguished Females: Written for Girls, with a View to Their Mental and Moral Improvement. New York: Harper, 1833. Reprint 1837. By Anne Hasseltine Judson, 1847; 1854.
One of the celebrated “Mrs. Judsons.”
American Sunday-School Union. Notable Women of Olden Times. Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1852.
America's Twelve Great Women Leaders during the Past Hundred Years as Chosen by the Women of America; a Compilation from the Ladies' Home Journal and the Christian Science Monitor. Chicago: Associated Authors, 1933.
TOC: Jane Addams; Susan B. Anthony; Clara Barton; Carrie Chapman Catt; Mary Baker Eddy; Julia Ward Howe; Helen Keller; Mary Lyon; Amelia Earhart Putnam; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Frances E. Willard; Dr. Mary E. Woolley.
Anderson, Rev. James[of Edinburgh]. The Ladies of the Covenant: Memoirs of Distinguished Scottish Female Characters, Embracing the Period of the Covenant and the Persecution. London: Blackie, 1850; 1851. Glasgow: Blackie, 1852; 1853; 1855; 1857; 1862. New York: Redfield, 1851; 2d ed. Clinton Hall, NY: Redfield, 1853; 1855; New York: Armstrong, 1880.
TOC: A. C., Marchioness of Hamilton; C. H. Boyd; Lady E. M. Culross; J. C., Viscountess of Kenmure; M. D., Marchioness of Argyll; J. R. Guthrie; M. M. Durham; J. M. Carstairs; A. H., Duchess of Hamilton; Marion F. Veitch; J. F. Livingstone; A. L., Duchess of Rothes; M. J. Crawford; B. C. Caldwell; M. W. Convill; C. R. Cavers; Isabel Alison; Marion Harvey; H. J. Hume; L. D. Campbell; Margaret Wilson; Margaret M'Lauchlin; A. M. Argyll; H. I. Campbell; G. H., Lady Baillie; C. H. Atholl.
---. Ladies of the Reformation: Memoirs of Distinguished Female Characters, Belonging to the Period of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century . . . England, Scotland, and the Netherlands. London: Blackie, 1854. London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, New York: Blackie, 1855. New York: Blackie, 1857.
---. Memorable Women of the Puritan Times. 2 vols., London, [etc.]: Blackie, 1861; 1862.
Riches.
Anderson, William. Model Women. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1870.
British Library. Congregational Minister, Member of the General Council of the University of Aberdeen. “Author of ‘Self-Made Men,’ ‘Kings of Society,’ etc., etc.“
Appleton's Portrait Gallery of Women: Celebrated in History, Poetry, and Romance, for Beauty, Character, and Heroism. New York: Appleton, 1875. As: World Noted Women Celebrated in History, Poetry, and Romance for Beauty, Character, and Heroism, 2 vols., New York: Appleton, 1881.
“Embracing historical subjects and ideal portraits of the wonderful creations of Shakespeare, Lord Byron, and Sir Walter Scott.” Note Appleton title by Mary Cowden Clarke, World-Noted Women , 1857. Compare Finden below.
Armytage, A. J. Green [or Green-Armytage]. Maids of Honour: Twelve Descriptive Sketches of Single Women Who Have Distinguished Themselves in Philanthropy, Nursing, Poetry, Travel, Science, Prose. With Portraits. London and Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1906.
TOC: Hannah More; Mary Carpenter; Caroline Lucretia Herschel; Sister Dora [Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison]; Mary Kingsley; Adelaide Anne Procter; Marianne North; Jean Ingelow; Louisa Alcott; Christina Rossetti; Agnes Strickland; Epilogue: Mary Lamb.
Cf. same title by Lewis Melville [i.e. Lewis Saul Benjamin], Frank Ranelagh [i.e. Robert Folkestone Williams].
Arnaud, Raoul. In the Shadows: Three Heroines of the Revolution. Translated by Noel Fleming. London: Hamilton; New York and Newark, NJ: Barse, 1928.
TOC: Heroine of conjugal piety: Madame de La Fayette; The tragical end of a love-match: Madame de Bellescize; The terror at Nimes: Mademoiselle Chabaud de la Tour.
Ashton, Carrie May, comp. Glimpses of Sunshine in Woman's Century. [Rockford, IL: Morning Star, 1880s?].
Ashton, Sophia Goodrich. The Girlhood of Celebrated Women: Women of Worth and the Mothers of the Bible. 2 vols. In 1. New York: World, 1877.
“Women of Worth,” TOC: Charlotte Bronté [sic]; Sarah Martin; Sarah Boardman Judson; Lady Rachel Russell; Isabel the Catholic; Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe; Maria Theresa; Caroline Herschel; Mrs. Flaxman; Lady Warwick; Lady Mackintosh.
“Mothers of the Bible” is the following collection. One of many volumes marketing girlhood/childhood.
---. The Mothers of the Bible. Boston: Jewett, 1854; 1855. New York: Sheldon, Lamport & Blakeman, 1855; New York: Tilton, 1859; 1865; Appleton, 1866.
TOC: The Bible; The Mothers of the Bible; Eve; Other Antediluvian Mothers; Sarah and Hagar; The Wife of Lot; Rebekah; Leah and Rachel; Jochabed; The Mothers of Israel in Egypt; Zipporah; The Mothers of Israel at Horeb; The Widowed Mothers of Israel at Horeb; Noami and Ruth; Hannah; Ichabod's Mother; The Mother of Samson; Rizpah; Bathsheba; Abigail; The Mother of Rehoboam; The Mother of Abijah; Jezebel; Athaliah; The Widow of Zarephath; The Shunamite; The Mother of Job's Children; Elizabeth; Mary; The Widow of Nain; The Syrophenician Mother; The Grandmother and Mother of Timothy.
Asquith, Emma Alice Margaret [Countess of Oxford and Asquith], ed. Myself When Young: By Famous Women of To-Day. [2d ed.], London: Muller, 1938.
Atkinson, Emma Willsher. Memoirs of the Queens of Prussia. London: Kent, 1858.
TOC: Sophia Charlotte of Hanover; Sophia Louis of Mecklenburg-Schwerin; Sophia Dorothea of Hanover; Elizabeth Christina of Brunswick Bevern; Frederica Louisa of Hesse Darmstadt; Louis of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
British Library. “An account of the Lives of the Queens of Prussia cannot fail to possess some interest for the English reader, . . . at a moment when England is about to bestow the eldest of her royal daughters upon the Crown Prince” (Preface v). Authoritative/adult manner.
Bacon, David Francis, ed. Memoirs of Eminently Pious Women of Britain and America. New Haven: D. McLeod, 1833.
Evident reference to Gibbons / Jerment / Burder editions, 1777-1836.
Badley, Mary Scott. Leaves From Lucknow. [New York]: Rindge Missionary Literature, [1880-1900?].
NOT?
Baker, Franc. Historical Sketches of the Northwestern Branch of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Chicago: Jameson & Morse, 1887.
Bald, Marjory Amelia. Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1923.
Baldwin, George Colfax [1817-1899]. Representative Women: From Eve, the Wife of the First, to Mary, the Mother of the Second Adam. Philadelphia and New York: American Baptist Publication Society, 1855; New York: Sheldon, Lamport & Blakeman, 1855; 1856; 1857; 1860; 1885. New York and Boston: Sheldon, Gould & Lincoln, [1900-1938?].
Balfour, Clara Lucas Liddell. The Bible Pattern of a Good Woman. London: Partridge, [1867].
Bodleian NOT. 80-pp. tract with didactic examples, but not collective biography. Incl. 16-pp. catalogue, “Illustrated Books Suitable for Presents and Distribution,” with ads for British Workman and other “One Penny Monthly” magazines published by Partridge. Endpaper title list incl. biography of the Prince Consort, otherwise non-biographical works. Balfour is listed as author of Passages in the History of a Shilling (Partridge).
---. Moral Heroism; or, The Trials and Triumphs of the Great and Good. London: Houlston & Stoneman, 1846; 1848. Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1850.
British Library. NOT. Twelve chapters with titles that place the qualities first, the names of male examplars next, and include only two women's names, Lady Russell and Elizabeth Fry. Cf. pairing of "great and good" or "good and great" in titles by Robert Cochrane, Kirkes, Sargeant, and Sigourney below.
---. A Sketch of Charlotte Elizabeth. London: Cash, 1854.
British Library stamp 1855: Brown cloth, paper boards. This is part of the following:
---. [Biographical series of pamphlets: Elizabeth Smith, Hannah Kilham, Ann H. Judson, Mrs. Barbauld, Hannah More and Her Sisters, Mrs. M. L. Duncan, Mrs. Sherman, Mrs. Trimmer, Sarah Martin ]. London: Cash, 1854.
British Library. The binding and cataloguing obscure the contents. E.g.: Ann H. Judson turns out to be a handy little book with “Missionaries” printed on its cover, containing a life of Judson followed unexpectedly by a life of Kilham. “Philanthropists: Second Series” has Martin followed by Mary Lundie Duncan. Grouping makes the onomastic system of cataloguing more fallible.
---. The Women of Scripture. London: Houlston & Stoneman, 1847; 1850; 1851.
Bodleian uncut. “It is necessary to keep in mind from what horrors the Israelites had been delivered, before we can understand Deborah's eulogium on the stern and unrelenting Jael” (100). “The characters of the illustrious women of the New Testament have less of external incident and more of internal principle, than those of the Old” (221).
---. Women Worth Emulating. New York: American Tract Society; London: Sunday-School Union, 1877.
Bodleian British Library.
---. Working Women of the Last Half Century: The Lessons of Their Lives. London: W. & F. G. Cash, 1854; 1856; Bennett, 1860. 3d ed., as Working Women of This Century: The Lesson of Their Lives. London & and New York: Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, 1868.
TOC of 1854 ed: Introductory; Mrs. Trimmer; Mrs. Hannah More and her Sisters; Mrs. Barbauld; Elizabeth Smith; Charlotte Elizabeth; Mrs. Sherman; Mrs. Mary Lundie Duncan; Sarah Martin; Mrs. Ann H. Judson; 1868 edition adds: Hannah Kilham; Charlotte Brontë. *Pop Chart
British Library. The pamphlets above rebound in single volume?
Barker, Nettie Garmer. Kansas Women in Literature. Kansas City: Meseraull & Son, 1915.
Barnard, David Nowell. Biblical Women: Giving a Correct Biographical Description of Every Female Mentioned in Scripture, With Explanatory Remarks. Cincinnati, OH: Hart, 1863.
Barnes, William Goodman. Women in the Bible. London: Marshall, [1920-29?].
Barrington, E. [i.e. Lily (Moresby) Adams Beck]. The Ladies! A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty. Boston: Atlantic Monthly, 1922. London: Fisher, 1922; 1923. London: Benn, 1927.
TOC: “The Diurnal of Mrs. Elizabeth Pepys: Had She Read her Husband's Diary; The Mystery of Stella: Why might not She and Vanessa Have Met?; My Lady Mary: To Dispel the Mystery of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's quitting England in 1739; The Golden Vanity: A Story of the First Irish Beauties—the Gunnings; The Walpole Beauty: A Tale in Letters about Maria Walpole, . . . Niece of Horace Walpole; A Bluestocking at Court: Why Fanny Burney, Madame D'Arblay, Retired from Court in 1791; The Darcys of Rosing: A Reintroduction to Some of the Characters of Miss Austen's Novels.”
NOT. Preface: “The aim of these stories is not historical accuracy. . . . rather . . . to re-create the personalities of a succession of charming women. . . . as I have imagined them” (n.p.).
Barton, William E. The Women Lincoln Loved. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill; London: Melrose, 1927.
See Hopkins re Napoleon.
Batley, Dorothea Sibella, and Annalice Mary Robinson. Devotees of Christ: Some Women Pioneers of the Indian Church. 2d ed., London: Church of England Zenana Missionary Society, 1937. 3d ed., [1938-59?].
Beach, Seth Curtis. Daughters of the Puritans: A Group of Brief Biographies. Boston: American Unitarian Assoc., 1905; 1907. London: Philip Green, 1907.
TOC: Catharine Maria Sedgwick; Mary Lovell Ware; Lydia Maria Child; Dorothea Lynde Dix; Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Louisa May Alcott.
Beaird, Miriam G. Notable Women of the Southwest: A Pictorial Biographical Encyclopedia of the Leading Women of Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Arizona. Dallas: Tardy, 1938.
Beale, Lucy Redd Preston, ed. The Virginian: Woman's Edition. Benefit of Virginia Board of Woman Managers, Cotton States and International Exposition. [Lynchburg, VA], 1895.
Bearne, Catherine M. Four Fascinating Frenchwomen. Illustrated. London: Unwin; New York: Brentano, 1910.
TOC: Adelaide Filleul; Claire de Kersaint; Maire Caroline de Bourbon; Princess Mathilde de Bonaparte.
---. Heroines of French Society, in the Court, the Revolution, the Empire, and the Restoration. London: Unwin, 1907 [1906]; New York: Dutton, 1906; 1907.
TOC: Madame Vigée le Brun; La Marquise de Montagu; Madame Tallien; Madame de Genlis.
---. Lives and Times of the Early Valois Queens. Illustrated. New York: Dutton, 1898. London: Unwin, 1899.
TOC: Jeanne de Bourgogne; Blanche de Navarre; Jeanne d'Aurvergne et de Boulogne.
---. Pictures of the Old French Court; Jeanne de Bourbon, Isabeau de Bavière, Anne de Bretagne. Illustrated by Edward H. Bearne. London: Unwin; New York: Dutton, 1900.
---. A Royal Quartette. London: Unwin, 1908. New York: Brentano, 1909.
[French, Italian, Spanish subjects, no duplication of above].
Beaton, Cecil. The Book of Beauty. London: Duckworth, 1930.
British Library. Frontispiece: cartoonish painting of Queen Alexandra; titlepage vignette: drawing of a generic beauty under glass. Edition limited to 110, signed No. 110. Thirty-nine subjects, including Lillie Langtry, the Beaton sisters, Miss Edith Sitwell, Mrs. Virginia Woolf, Miss Tallulah Bankhead, Miss Lilian Gish, Miss Norma Shearer, Miss Greta Garbo, Miss Gertrude Lawrence, Miss Anita Loos, Lady Cunard. Some women of rank. “Unlike other children, my greatest heroines were not the Maid of Orleans or the Lady of the Lamp [sic], but Lily Elsie, Gabrielle Ray and Queen Alexandra” (1). “There will be disagreement about my choice. . . far from complete” (3). This “is the first attempt at an up-to-date version of the old books of beauty” with their stylized scenes “unreal but divinely pretty” (4). In modern times, women reincarnate famous types: “Mrs. Peter Thursby as our Nell Gwynne, Lady Juliet Duff as Mrs. Siddons; Lady Hamilton imitated the plastic poses of Cleo, Agrippina and Diana [sic], and Lady Lavery poses as Lady Hamilton. But how many of these beauties . . . will make history?” (5). “Mrs. Virginia Woolf is one of the most gravely distinguished-looking women I have ever seen. . . . She has all the chaste and sombre beauty of village schoolmistresses, housekeepers, and nuns. . . . one realises that a face can be a reverend and sacred thing”: a heroine like Mrs. Dalloway, unsuited to makeup (37-38).
Beaton, Rev. Donald. Scottish Heroines of the Faith: Being Brief Sketches of Noble Women of the Reformation and Covenant Times. London and Glasgow: Catt; Adshead, 1909.
TOC: Mrs. Ronaldson (Helen Stirk), Perth; Mrs. Welsh; Mrs. James Guthrie, Stirling; Mrs. Brown, Priesthill; Margaret Lachlison (Maclachlan and Margaret Wilson; Isabel Alison; Marion Harvey; Duchess of Rothes; Marchioness of Hamilton; Lady Caldwell; Viscountess of Kenmore; Marchioness of Argyll; Mrs. John Carstares; Lady Boyd; Lady Colvill; Lady Culross; Mrs. William Veitch; Mrs. John Livingstone; Mrs. James Durham.
Cf. Anderson, The Ladies of the Covenant / of the Reformation, 1850-1855.
Beaumont, E. de. Women and Cruelty. London, 1905.
Possible source of a pseudonym: Edouard de Beaumont, L'Epée et les femmes (1881); Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont, celebrated “hermaphrodite” featured in various English works, 1860s-1900, and in Andrew Lang, Historical Mysteries (London: Smith, Elder, 1904). NOT?
Beedy, Helen Coffin. Mothers of Maine. Portland, ME: Thurston Print, 1895.
Ben-Asher, Naomi. Great Jewish Women Throughout History. New York: Education Dept., Hadassah, 1939. As: The Jewish Woman Throughout History: A Course of Lectures in Seven Outlines. New York: Hadassah, n.d. Jersey City: n.p., n.d.
Bennett, Helen Christine. American Women in Civic Work. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1915; 1919.
TOC: Preface; Caroline Bartlett Crane; Sophie Wright; Jane Addams; Kate Barnard; Albion Fellows Bacon; Hannah Kent Schoff; Frances A. Kellor; Julia Tutwiler; Lucretia L. Blankenburg; Anna Howard Shaw; Ella Flagg Young.
“Portions of the sketches which appear in this book have been published serially, principally in the Pictorial Review and the American Magazine.”
Betham-Edwards, Matilda Barbara [1836-1919]. Mid-Victorian Memories ...with a Personal Sketch by Mrs. Sarah Grand. London: Murray; New York: Macmillan, 1919.
NOT.
---. Six Life Studies of Famous Women: With Six Portraits Engraved on Steel. London: Griffith & Farran; New York: Dutton, 1880.
TOC: Fernan Caballero (Spanish Novelist); Alexandrine Tinn (African Explorer); Caroline Herschel (Astronomer and Mathematician); Marie Pape-Carpantier (Educational Reformer); Elizabeth Carter (Scholar); Matilda Betham (Litterateur and Artist). *Pop Chart
In British Library under Edwards.
Bethune, George Washington. The British Female Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blackiston, 1848; 1849; 1853; 1854; 1858; 1865. New York: Butler, 1849; Allen, 1869; Hurst, 1848, [1860-69?]; Crowell, n.d. As: Pearls from the British Female Poets, New York: World, 1875.
Bhattacharyya, Panchanan. Ideals of Indian Womanhood. With a Foreword by A. Chaudhuri. Calcutta: Goldguin, 1921.
Biddle, Gertrude Bosler, Sarah Dickinson Lowrie, et al., eds. Notable Women of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1942.
British Library.
Binheim, Max, and Charles A. Elvin, eds. Women of the West: A Series of Biographical Sketches of Living Eminent Women in the Eleven Western States of the United States of America. Los Angeles: Publishers Press, 1928.
A Biographical Record of Queensland Women: A Representation of Every Sphere. Brisbane: Webb & Elliott, 1939.
Birrell, Francis, ed. Six Brilliant English Women. London: Gerald Howe, 1930.
TOC: Annie Wood Besant; Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Eizabeth Chudleigh Countess of Bristol; Aphra Behn; Sarah Jennings Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough. Contributors: V. S-W, Bonamy Dobree, Beatrice Curtis Brown, Martin Armstrong, Irene Cooper Willis, “Geoffrey West.” *Pop Chart
Also listed as Sackville-West, Vita, et al.
Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. Glasgow: D. Bryce, 1893. London: n.p., 1893. London: Maclaren, 1906.
TOC: Mrs. Lynn Linton; Mrs. Riddell; Mrs. L. B. Walford; Rhoda Broughton; John Strange Winter (Mrs. Arthur Stannard); Mrs. Alexander; Helen Mathers; Florence Marryat; Mrs. Lovett Cameron; Mrs. Hungerford; Matilda Betham Edwards; Edna Lyall; Rosa Nouchette Carey; Adeline Sergeant; Mrs. Edward Kennard; Jessie Fothergill; Lady Duffus Hardy; Iza Duffus Hardy; May Crommelin; Mrs. Houstoun; Mrs. Alex. Fraser; Honourable Mrs. Henry Chetwynd; Jean Middlemass; Augusta De Grasse Stevens; Mrs. Leith Adams; Jean Ingelow.
“These sketches originally appeared as a series in the ‘Lady's pictorial’ ... They are now revised, enlarged and brought up to date.”
Blackburne, E. Owens [i.e. Elizabeth Casey]. Illustrious Irishwomen: Being Memoirs of Some of the Most Noted Irishwomen from the Earliest Ages to the Present Century. 2 vols., London: Tinsley, 1877.
TOC: vol. 1: Early Irish Period; Mediaeval Period; Famous Actresses. vol. 2: Literary Women; Miscellaneous.
Also catalogued under Casey.
Blackwell, Elizabeth. Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches. London and New York: Longmans, Green; Hastings: Barry, 1895. As: Pioneer Work for Women. Introduction by Milicent Fawcett. London: J. M. Dent; New York: Dutton, 1914.
NOT. British Library lists Dent, 1914 edition under the former title. Blackwell is a frequent subject, Fawcett a presenter and (rarely) a subject.
Blain, Alexander C. Heroines of History: Eleven Little Plays of Great Women. London: Epworth, 1939.
NOT.
Blair, Gertrude. Historical Sketches of Southwest Virginia Pioneer Women, 1750-1940. Virginia Federal Writers' Project. Roanoke, VA: n.p., 1940.
“Individual biographies dated 1937-1938 . . . compiled in 1940.”
Blair, Ruth, comp. Georgia Women of 1926. [Atlanta?]: Georgia Department of Archives and History, 1926.
Blashfield, Evangeline Wilbour. Portraits and Backgrounds. New York: Scribner's, 1917.
TOC: Hrotsvitha; Aphra Behn; Charlotte Élisabeth Aïssé; Rosalba Carriera. *Pop Chart
Blashfield co-edited (with Edwin Howland Blashfield and others) an edition of Vasari's Lives of . . . Painters (Scribner's, 1897), co-authored with Edwin Howland Blashfield, Italian Cities (Scribner's, 1902)--including “In Florence with Romola,” and wrote Manon Philipon Roland: Early Years (New York: Scribner's, 1922), a biography of Madame Roland, published posthumously (Evangeline died 1918, Edwin in 1936).
Bleackley, Horace William. Ladies Fair and Frail: Sketches of the Demi-Monde during the Eighteenth Century. With Sixteen Illustrations. London and New York: Lane, 1909; 1925; Dodd, Mead, 1926.
TOC: Fanny Murray; Kitty Fisher; Nancy Parsons; Kitty Kennedy; Grace Dalrymple Eliot; Gertrude Mahon.
Bleackley includes bibliographies that document “his labours in the lighter fields of historical research,” in contrast with the “perfunctory” biographies that have “swamped the market”; “the rapid craftsman is most sure of recognition” (Preface, viii). In an endpage advertisement, Bleackley receives praise from prestigious journals (e.g. Athenaeum ) for his sound historical research.
Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of [1789-1849], ed. The Book of Beauty, or Regal Gallery. London: Bogue, 1848; 1849. New York: Appleton, 1848; 1849. As Heath's Book of Beauty (an annual), London and New York: Longman [etc.], 1834-36; 1839; 1840; 1842; 1846.
Annual, Heath's Book of Beauty , begun in 1834. Blessington also ed. Keepsake from 1841. L.E.L. also listed as editor.
Bloss, Celestia Angenette. Heroines of the Crusades. Muscatine, IA: R. M. Burnett, 1852; 1853. Detroit: Herr, Doughty & Lapham, 1853. Rochester, NY: Lippincott, 1853; 1881. Auburn, NY: Alden, Beardsley, 1853; 1854; 1855; 1857. New York: J. C. Derby, 1853. New Orleans: Burnett & Bostwick, 1853; 1854. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1887.
TOC: Adela of Blois; Eleanor of Aquitaine; Berengaria of Navarre; Isabella of Angouleme; Violante of Jerusalem; Eleanora of Castile.
Blunt, H[ugh] F[rancis]. The Great Magdalens. New York: Macmillan, 1928.
TOC: Penitents of the Stage; Voices from the Desert; Magdalens of the Ages of Penance; The Woman Augustine Loved; Rosamond Clifford; Saint Margaret of Cortona; Blessed Angela of Foligno; Blessed Clare of Rimini; Saint Hyacintha of Mariscotti; Catalina de Cardona, "The Sinner"; Beatrice Cenci; The Princess Palatine; Madame de Longueville; Louise de la Valliere; Madame de Montespan; Madame de la Sablire; Madame Pompadour; Madame Tiquet. *Pop Chart
---. Great Wives and Mothers. New York: Devin-Adair, 1917; 1923; 1927.
TOC: Mothers and Martyrs; Matrons of the Early Church; St. Monica; The Queen Saints; St. Elizabeth of Hungary; St. Rita; Royal Ladies; Isabella the Catholic; Margaret Roper; Margaret Clitherow; Anna Maria Taigi; Elizabeth Seton; Jerusha Barber; Mary O'Connell;Lady Georgianna Fullerton; Margaret Haughery; Pauline Craven; Some Literary Wives and Mothers. *Pop Chart
Boggie, Jeannie Marr Manson. Experiences of Rhodesia's Pioneer Women: Being a True Account of the Adventures of the Early White Women Settlers in Southern Rhodesia from 1890. Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia: Philpott & Collins, 1938.
Bolton, Sarah Knowles Famous Leaders Among Women. New York and Boston: Crowell, 1895.
See How To Make It as a Woman, 57.
TOC: Madame de Maintenon; Catharine II. of Russia; Madame le Brun; Dolly Madison; Catherine Booth; Lucy Stone; Lady Henry Somerset; Julia Ward Howe; Queen Victoria. *Pop Chart
Of 16 collections by Bolton listed in Riches, 4 are all-female.
---. Famous Types of Womanhood. New York: T. Y. Crowell, 1886; 1892.
See How To Make It as a Woman, 57.
TOC: Queen Louise of Prussia; Madame Récamier; Susanna Wesley; Harriet Martineau; Jenny Lind; Dorthea Lynde Dix; Ann, Sarah, and Emily Judson; Amelia Blandford Edwards. *Pop Chart
---. Lives of Girls Who Became Famous. New York: T. Y. Crowell, 1886; 1914; 1923; 1925?; 1930; 1936; 1938; 1939; 1941; 1949. In Indonesia: Djakarta: Endang, 1958. Trans. in Bengali: Dacca: Purbachal Prakashani, 1959. Trans. in Urdu: Lahore: Maktaba-e-Urdu, 1958.
See How To Make It as a Woman, 57.
Trans. in Bengali: Dacca: Purbachal Prakashani, 1959. Trans. in Urdu: Lahore: Maktaba-e-Urdu, 1958.
TOC: Harriet Beecher Stowe; Helen Hunt Jackson; Lucretia Mott; Mary A. Livermore; Margaret Fuller Ossoli; Maria Mitchell; Louisa M. Alcott; Mary Lyon; Harriet G. Hosmer; Madame de Staêl; Rosa Bonheur; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; "George Eliot"; Elizabeth Fry; Elizabeth Thompson Butler; Florence Nightingale; Lady Brassey; Baroness Burdett-Coutts; Jean Ingelow.
TOC 1925(?): Elizabeth Barrett Browning; George Eliot; Florence Nightingale; Jean Ingelow; Jenny Lind; Madame de Staêl; Rosa Bonheur; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Helen Hunt Jackson; Lucretia Mott; Mary A. Livermore; Margaret Fuller Ossoli; Maria Mitchell; Louisa M. Alcott; Mary Lyon; Harriet G. Hosmer; Julia Ward Howe; Jane Addams; Alice Freeman Palmer; Clara Barton; Susan B. Anthony; Anna Howard Shaw; Frances E. Willard; Elizabeth Blackwell; Helen Keller; Lady Astor.
TOC 1941 : Elizabeth Barrett Browning; George Eliot; Florence Nightingale; Jean Ingelow; Jenny Lind; Madame de Staêl; Rosa Bonheur; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Helen Hunt Jackson; Lucretia Mott; Mary A. Livermore; Margaret Fuller Ossoli; Maria Mitchell; Louisa M. Alcott; Mary Lyon; Harriet G. Hosmer; Julia Ward Howe; Jane Addams; Alice Freeman Palmer; Clara Barton; Susan B. Anthony; Anna Howard Shaw; Frances E. Willard; Elizabeth Blackwell; Helen Keller; Lady Astor; Madame Curie; Madame Chiang Kai-Shek; Amelia Earhart.
TOC 1949 : Jane Addams; Louisa May Alcott; Marian Anderson; Susan B. Anthony; Clara Barton; Elizabeth Blackwell; Rosa Bonheur; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Katherine Cornell; Marie Curie; Amelia Earhart; Julia Ward Howe; Helen Keller; Elizabeth Kenny; Jenny Lind; Mary Lyon; Florence Nightingale; Margaret Fuller Ossoli; Frances Perkins; Eleanor Roosevelt; Madame de Staêl; Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Copyright Bolton through 1914. Crowell copyright renewed through 1949. *Pop Chart
---. Successful Women. Boston: Lothrop, 1888.
See How To Make It as a Woman, 57.
TOC: Juliet Corson; Mary Louise Booth; Frances E. Willard; Mrs. G. R. Alden ("Pansy"); Mary Virginia Terhune ("Marion Harland"); Margaret; Ella Grant Campbell; Rachel Littler Bodley (by a friend); Candice Wheeler.; Clara Barton.; Alice E. Freeman (by a friend). *Pop Chart
Bothmer, the Countess A. von [Marie], ed. The Sovereign Ladies of Europe. With 153 Illustrations. London: Hutchinson, 1899. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1900.
British Library. Frontispiece signed portrait of Victoria, The Queen in State Robes "from an engraving of a drawing by A. E. Chalon"; 1900. Preface: "nowadays no crowned head merely lives a life of luxury, regardless of the weal and woe of his subjects. To rule or to reign in our time means work" (v). Sixteen (mostly still living) subjects, several immediately related to Victoria. Many photographs of interiors and gardens, portraits including babies and spouses, and travel narrative place Bothmer (and hence reader) in proximity to private lives of royals.
Bradford, Gamaliel. Daughters of Eve. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin; Book League of America; New Home Library; Lincoln Historical Society, 1930; 1942.
TOC: I. Eve in the Apple-Orchard: Ninon de Lenclos; II. Eve as Love and Serpent: Madame de Maintenon; III. Eve and Almighty God: Madame Guyon; IV. Eve and Adam: Mademoiselle de Lespinasse; V. Eve Enthroned: Catharine the Great; VI. Eve and the Pen: George Sand; VII. Eve in the Spotlight: Sarah Bernhardt. *Pop Chart
---. Portraits of American Women. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1919.
TOC: Abigail Smith Adams; Sarah Alden Riplye; Mary Lyon; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Margaret Fuller Ossoli; Louisa May Alcott; Frances Willard; Emily Dickinson. *Pop Chart
“A group of women who were mainly notable for their own achievements, quite independent of the other sex” (Preface, Wives , xi, re Portraits of American Women ).
---. Portraits of Women. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1916.
TOC: Lady Mary Wortley Montague; Lady Holland; Miss Austen; Madame d'Arblay [Fanny Burney]; Mrs. Pepys; Madame de Sévigné; Madame du Deffand; Madame de Choiseul; Eugénie de Guérin. *Pop Chart
Frenchwomen nearly as dominant as British in this collection.
---. Wives. New York and London: Harper, 1925.
TOC: Mrs. Abraham Lincoln; Mrs. Benedict Arnold; Theodosia Burr; Mrs. James Madison; Mrs. Jefferson Davis; Mrs. Benjamin F. Butler; Mrs. James Gillespie Blaine.
“Confessions of a Biographer” reflects on current “fashion” of biography, and the difficulty of the art, with admiration for “Mr. Strachey” (3-14). A separate publication, The Woman Lincoln Married (Boston: Boston Publishing, 1928); clipped from Boston Herald 7-11 Feb. 1928, “five daily installments of ‘Bradford's brilliant study, “Mrs. Abraham Lincoln.”’”
Brailsford, Mabel Richmond. Quaker Women, 1650-1690. London: Duckworth, 1915.
Biographer of William Penn and the Wesley family. NOT. A history; incl. 1 p. on E. Fry (322-3); Hannah Kilham, the Quaker missionary to the Sierra Leon freed slave colony with Anne Thompson (333-4); Elizabeth Hooton; Margaret Fell; Mary Fisher; Barbara Blaugdone. Catalogue.
Brandt, Johanna. The Petticoat Commando: or, Boer Women in Secret Service. London: Mills & Boon, 1913.
Brave Women: [Bible Stories for Children]. Wellington, NZ: Reed, [1940s?]
Brawley, Benjamin Griffith. Women of Achievement: Written for the Fireside Schools, under the Auspices of the Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society. Chicago: Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society, 1919.
TOC: The Negro woman in American Life; Harriet Tubman; Nora Gordon; Meta Warwick Fuller; Mary McLeod Bethune; Mary Church Terrell. *Pop Chart
Braybrooke, Patrick. Some Goddesses of the Pen. London: Daniel, 1927. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1928.
TOC: Miss Sheila Kaye-Smith; Miss Rose Macaulay; Miss Ethel M. Dell; The Baroness Orczy; Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick; Miss Cynthia Stockley; Mrs. Henry De La Pasture; Mrs. Baillie-Reynolds.
Brickdale, Eleanor Fortescue. Golden Book of Famous Women. London and New York: Hodder & Stoughton, 1919.
Also listed under Fortescue-Brickdale, and as Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale's Golden Book of Famous Women .
NOT. Elegant album in blue cloth with golden lettering and decoration: a frieze of early-modern figures strolling through an orchard on the front cover. 200 pp. of large type and wide margins. Pasted-in color illustrations by “E.F.B.”: mostly of a solitary woman in a pastoral or garden setting. Exceptions: Abelard embraces an ecstatic Eloise; Beatrice and entourage ascend a formal outdoor staircase to meet Dante and friends facing viewer at summit of picture. Brief excerpts from famous authors; many subjects entirely fictional, e.g. Becky Sharp; Maggie Tulliver. *Pop Chart
Brightwell, Cecilia Lucy. Above Rubies; or, Memoirs/Memorials of Christian Gentlewomen. London: Nelson, 1865; 1871. London and New York: Nelson, 1869; 1878; 1879; 1887. Nashville: A. H. Redford, for the M. E. Church, 1874; 1875; 1890; Southern Methodist, 1880; 1883. As: Memorial Chapters in the Lives of Christian Gentlewomen. London: Book Society, 1871-73. Advertised rpt. 1889.
TOC: Anne, Countess of Balcarres & Her Daughter Lady Anne Lindsay; II. Madame Guizot & Her Daughter-in-Law; III. Caroline Perthes; IV. Mrs. Grant, of Laggan; V. Madame Necker; VI. Lady Fanshawe; VII. Winifred Herbert, Countess of Nithsdale; VIII. Louisa, Queen of Prussia; IX. Mrs. Susannah Wesley; X. Katherine von Bora, Luther's wife; XI. Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson.
Bristol, Frank M[ilton]. Heroines of History: Typical Heroines of Mythology, of Shakespeare, of the Bible. New York and Cincinnati, OH: Abingdon, 1914.
Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Chapters typically entitled: “The Heroine-Mother: Thetis, Hecuba, Latona,” or “The Heroine-Daughter: Miranda, Cordelia.”
Brockett, Linus Pierpont and Mary C. Vaughan. Woman's Work in the Civil War: A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience. Philadelphia: Zeigler, McCurdy; Boston: R. H. Curran, 1867. As: Heroines of the Rebellion; or, Woman's Work in the Civil War; A Record of Heroism, Patriotism and Patience. Philadelphia: Hubbard, 1888.
Brooks, Elbridge Streeter. Historic Girls: Stories of Girls Who Have Influenced the History of Their Times. New York: Putnam's, 1887; 1891; 1904; 1915.
TOC: Zenobia of Palmyra; Helena of Britain; Pulcheria of Constantinople; Clotilda of Burgundy; Woo of Hwang-Ho; Edith of Scotland; Jacqueline of Holland; Catarina of Venice; Theresa of Avila; Elizabeth of Tudor; Christina of Sweden; Ma-ta-oka of Powha-tan. *Pop Chart
Brooks, Geraldine. Dames and Daughters of Colonial Days. New York: Crowell, 1900.
TOC: 1. Anne Hutchinson, 1636; 2. Frances Mary Jacqueline La Tour, 1650; 3. Margaret Brent, 1650; 4. Madam Sarah Knight, 1704; 5. Eliza Lucas, Wife of Chief-Justice Pinckney, 1760; 6. Martha Washington, 1770; 7. Abigail Adams, 1770; 8. Elizabeth Schuyler, Wife of Alexander Hamilton, 1776; 9. Sarah Wister and Deborah Norris, 1776.
---. Dames and Daughters of the French Court. New York: Crowell, 1904. London: Unwin, 1905.
TOC: Madame de Sevigné; Madame de LaFayette; Madame Geoffrin; Mademoiselle de Lespinasse; Madame Roland; Madame Le Brun; Madame de Staël; Madame Récamier; Madame Valmore; Madame de Rémusat.
---. Dames and Daughters of the Young Republic. New York: Crowell, 1901.
TOC: Dorothea Payne Madison, Wife of James Madison; Sarah Jay, Wife of John Jay; Theodosia Burr, Daughter of Aaron Burr; Elizabeth Patterson, Wife of Prince Jerome Bonaparte; Martha Jefferson, Daughter of Thomas Jefferson; Rachel Jackson, Wife of Andrew Jackson; Dorothy Hancock, Wife of John Hancock; Emily Marshall, Familiarly Known as “the Beautiful Emily Marshall”.
Broughton, Len G. [1864-1936] The Representative Women of the Bible and the Representative Women of To-day. Philadelphia: Pepper, 1903.
TOC: Introduction; Eve the Unfolded; Sarah the Steadfast; Rebekah the Far-Seeing; Rachael the Placid; Miriam the Gifted; Deborah the Drastic; Ruth the Decided; Hannah the Pious; Mary the Guiding; Mary the Thought-Reading.
Note George Matheson's volume with the same main title, 1907, below. (The bibliography in How to Make It as a Woman incorrectly blends the publication information for Broughton's and Mathesons' books.)
Brown, Hallie Quinn. Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction. Xenia, OH: Aldine Publishing, 1926.
TOC: Susan S. McK. Steward; Henrietta C. Ray; Lucy S. Thurman; Josephine S. Yates; Maria L. Baldwin; Mary E. Mossell; Agnes J. Adams; Susie I.L. Shorter; Victoria E. Matthews; Mary B. Talbert; C.J. Walker; Susan E. Frazier; Margaret M. Washington; Emma A. Hackley; Laura A. Brown; California Colored Women Trail Blazers; Sarah G. Jones; Marietta Chiles; Eliza P. Fox. *Pop Chart
African American subjects, compiled by the educator and elocutionist.
---. Our Women Past, Present, and Future. Xenia, OH: Eckerle, 1925; 1940.
Brown, Louise, et. al., ed. A Book of South Australia: Women in the First Hundred Years. Adelaide: Rigby, 1936. Illus.
NOT. Frontispiece engraving of Adelaide (pasted in). Three-color cardboard cover with rising sun, ship, compass; “1836” inscribed in the waves; “1936” on the compass. “We want the youth of S. Australia to know and to glory in what their forebears did, and to realize what women are doing even now in the outback country. The same brave blood runs in their veins. . . .” An anthology with short biographies, illus. (some color) of art by Australian women, diaries and letters, fiction, poetry, essays.
Browne, Phyllis. [i.e., Sarah Sharp Heaton Hamer]. Mrs. Somerville and Mary Carpenter. London and New York: Cassell, 1887; 1889; 1890; 1893.
Part of The World's Workers Series. See Alldridge above; Tomkinson below.
Browne, William Hardcastle, comp. Famous Women of History: Containing Nearly Three Thousand Brief Biographies and Over One Thousand Female Pseudonyms. Philadelphia: Arnold, 1895.
NOT.
Bruce, Charles, ed. The Book of Noble Englishwomen: Lives Made Illustrious by Heroism, Goodness, and Great Attainments. London and Edinburgh: Nimmo, 1875; 1878; 1891. New York: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1878.
TOC: Anne Askew; Lady Elizabeth Fitzgerald; Lady Jane Grey; Lady Banks; Lady Derby; Lady Fanshawe; Lucy Hutchinson; Lady Rachel Russell; Lady Lisle; Grizel Cochrane; Lady Grizell Baillie; Lady Ogilvy; Flora Macdonald; Lady Harriet Acland; Mrs. Delany; Hannah More; Mary Bosanquet; Helen Walker; Fanny Burney; Mme D'Arblay; Mrs. Grant, of Laggan; Cornelia Knight; Jane Austen; Miss Berry; Mary Russell Mitford; Sarah Martin; Grace Darling; Charlotte Bronte; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Adelaide Anne Procter; Lady Duff Gordon; Frances Brown, the Blind Poetess; Mary Somerville; Janet Hamilton; Sarah Siddons; Felicia Hemans; L.E. Landon; Maria Edgeworth. *Pop Chart
---. Inspiring Lives: Biographies of the Great among Women. Edinburgh: Nimmo, Hay, & Mitchell, 1897.
Not in British Library. Selections of preceding collection.
Buchanan, Isabella Reid. Women of the Bible. Minneapolis: Colwell, 1924. New York and London: Appleton, 1924; 1925; 1927; 1931; 1934; 1938; 1940.
Buckland, Augustus Robert. Women in the Mission Field, Pioneers and Martyrs. London: Isbister; 1895. New York: Whittaker, 1895.
Bodleian & British Library.
Bunyan, Elizabeth. Heroines Worthy of the Red Cross. Florence Nightingale. Elizabeth Fry. London: Dean, 1883.
NOT. Subjects and publisher common in this subgenre.
Buoy, Charles Wesley. Representative Women of Methodism. New York: Hunt & Eaton; Cincinnati, OH: Cranston & Curts, 1893.
Burchard, Samuel Dickinson. The Daughters of Zion. New York: Taylor, 1853.
Burder, Samuel. Female Biography: Biography of Remarkable Females. Philadelphia, 1835.
Possible title variation on Gibbons / Jerment / Burder, Memoirs of Eminently Pious Women . . . (early chronological list).
Burdett-Coutts, Angela Georgina, Baroness, ed. Royal British Commission, Chicago Exhibition, 1893. Woman's Mission: A Series of Congress Papers on the Philanthropic Work of Women by Eminent Writers. Royal British Commission, Chicago Exhibition, 1893; London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1893.
British Library. NOT. Compare Eagle, The Congress of Women and other compilations of 1893-1894.
Burke, John. The Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Females: Including Beauties of the Courts of George IV and William IV. 2 vols., London: E. Bull/Bull and Churton, 1833.
British Library. 36 subj. vol. 1; 36 in vol. 2. Portraits by Sir T. Lawrence and others, including Mrs. J. Robertson and Miss E. Kendrick, engraved by Thomson, Dean, Cochrane and others. Burke's “memoirs” are skeletal genealogies or annals focused on males (cross-referenced among interrelated families). Wide individualist variety in the portraits. No discernable order.
Burns, Jabez. The Mothers of the Wise and Good. London: Houlston & Stoneman, 1846. Boston: Gould, Kendall & Lincoln, 1850. 4th ed., Boston: Gould & Lincoln, 1851; 1855. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman, 1855.
Prolific Dissenting Christian writer 1840s-1860s. Numerous short chapters, e.g. “Monica and St. Augustine,” “Rev. Thos. Halyburton and his Mother” [sic], “Mrs. Wesley and her Children.” *Pop Chart
Burroughs, Nannie Helen. Making Their Mark. Washington, DC: National Training School for Women and Girls, n.d.
African American, by chair of Committee on Negro Housing, c. 1931-1932.
Burton, Margaret [Ernestine] Hill. Notable Women of Modern China. New York and Chicago: Revell, 1912.
TOC: Dr. Hii King Eng; Mrs. Ahok; Dr. Ida Kahn; Dr. Mary Stone; Yu Kuliang; Anna Stone.
Bush, Annie F. Memoirs of the Queens of France: With Notices of the Royal Favorites. 2 vols., London: Colburn, 1843. Memoirs of the Queens of France : from the 2d London Edition. Philadelphia: Cary and Hart, 1847; Hart, 1851. Subtitle: Dedicated, by Express Permission, to the Queen of the French and Containing a Memoir of Her Majesty. Philadelphia: Parry & Macmillan, 1854; 1855. Subtitle: Including a Memoir of Her Majesty, the Late Queen of the French (Marie Amelie). Philadelphia: Keystone, 1890.