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II. Alphabetical Bibliography, 1830-1940
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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.



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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.

TOC: Eve; Sarah; Lot’s Wife; Rebecca; Leah and Rachel; Pharoah’s Daughter; Deborah and Jael; Delilah; Naomi; Ruth; Hannah; Abigail; Bathseba; Queen of Sheba; Widow of Sarepta; Jezebel; The Shunammite; The “Little Maid; ” Vashti; Esther; The Virgin Mary; Elisabeth; Anna; Women of Samaria; Woman of Bloody Issue; Maby of Bethany; Martha; Martha and Mary; Herodias; Salome; Syro-Pheniciam Woman; Mother of James and John; Mary Magdelene; Sapphira; Dorcas; Lydia; Priscilla; Phebe; Tyrphena; Tryphosa; Persis; The Fretful Woman; The Strange Woman; The Virtuous Woman.

Recurrent title and type of collection.



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3.
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.”



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4.
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. See additional collection edited by Foster, Heroines of Modern Religion, 1913. *Pop Chart.



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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.



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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; Adelaide Anne 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).



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7.
---. 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.”.



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---. 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.



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9.
---. Exemplary Women: A Record of Feminine Virtues and Achievements. London: 1882.

Bodleian Abridged from Woman's Work and Worth.

TOC: Woman as Mother; Woman as Wife; Woman as Maiden; Woman in the World of Letters; Woman in the World of Art; Woman as the Heroine; Woman as Enthusiast and Social Reformer.



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10.
---. 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



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11.
---. 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



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12.
---. Stories of the Lives of Noble Women. London: T. Nelson, 1877. 1880; 1882. [1911].

Riches.

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; Charlotte Bronte. Bodleian. Same contents as Adams, The Sunshine, with the addition of Charlotte Brontë.



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13.
---. 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.



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14.
---. 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. See also Pop Chart



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15.
---. Women of Fashion and Representative Women in Letters and Society: A Series of Biographical and Critical Studies. 2 vols., London: Tinsley, 1878.

TOC: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu; The Duchess of Marlborough; Lady Morgan; Madame d'Arblay [Fanny Burney]; Mrs. Elizabeth Inchbald; The Countess of Blessington; Charlotte Brontë; Miss Berry.

Cambridge University Library stamp 23 Aug 78; labels of spines XXVIII 66 22 and 23. Blue cloth 8o; black scrollwork stamps on covers, gilt lettering on spine, black lettering on cover; brown floral endpapers. Davenport is identified as Author of "The Artic World, the Mediterranean Illustrated, the Bird-World, etc." Dedicated "The the Right Hon. the Countess of Glasgow these volumes are by permission respectfully and gratefully dedicated by the author."
Adams's Preface submits to “'general reader’” reading that should be “pleasant and not unprofitable” for “leisure hour,” concerning “the character of Woman as she appears in the world of Literature and Society” (capitalized in original). The subjects were “chosen because they are representative." It is "needless to dwell on the strong moral and intellectual distinctions which separate a Harriet Martineau from a Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, or a Charlotte Brontë from a Countess of Blessington.” umlaut The “present volumes are confined to English Representative Women; but should they meet with a favourable reception from the reading public, the writer on another occasion may venture further afield.” "January 1878" (vii-viii)
Throughout biographies, a horizontal line sets off the header of each page, Representative Women (verso), subject's name (recto). First page of each gives subject's name in large caps followed by a period and "A.D. 1753-1821" (Inchbald) or the appropriate birth and death dates. The narratives are divided into chapters.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's biography consumes 149 pages, followed by a summary page in smaller type giving her name, dates of birth (1690) and death (1762), quoting at length from “Dallaway,” who favorably compares Montagu's learning with other women's. She “applied her learning to improve her knowledge of the world…" She showed best in her "purity of style, rather than in the ambition of displaying her acquirements…" She gave "grace of expression and novelty to maxims…” (150). Other subjects do not receive such a concluding page "blurb." For comparison, Burney or “Frances D’Arblay” [sic] receives five chapters (124 pp.).
The biography of Elizabeth Inchbald begins, “We have now to tell the story of a Woman who in some respects may fairly be considered Representative, though she made no very conspicuous figure in what is known as Society, and does not occupy a very high position in the republic of Letters. Her life was more remarkable than her works, and her character is a more interesting study than her life. Yet had she possessed less of marked individuality, and had her career permitted fewer noticeable incidents, she must still have been remembered as a dramatist of some ability, and a novelist of no mean order” (125)
“Marguerite, Countess of Blessington, once so famous in London Society, though now little more than the shadow of a name, was the third child…" begins Blessington's biography (176). Chapter iv:“Lady Blessington’s literary career was not, as we have seen, a successful one” (253). After a slash on p. 263, “A few words may be added respecting Count D’Orsay" (263-4), a unique supplement comparable to Dallaway's words on Montagu.
As to Adams's authority and objectivity, he gets some facts wrong and judges by strict gender and religious standards. Charlotte Brontë's dates are given 1817-1855 instead of 1816-1855. The biography begins: "The Rev. Patrick Blundell, who afterwards assumed the name of Brontë, was a native of the county of Down in Ireland” (265). The three sisters become subjects: Charlotte's "life was so mixed up with the lives of her sisters, that the threads cannot be wholly disentangled…." Perhaps with Gaskell in mind, Adams opines, "We are great believers in the power of circumstances to shape and modify character; and we believe that the sights and sounds…in our childhood produce each a strong impression” (266-7). “We feel the breath of the strong Yorkshire breezes in her style….Haworth was hardly the place in which a lyrist of the Thomas Moore stamp could have grown up and sung; hardly the place to have nourished a ‘Wild Irish Girl’ or an ‘Evelina.’ But it was no unfitting home for a ‘Jane Eyre’” (267). The biography concludes with Harriet Martineau’s famous obituary assessment of Charlotte as having the “conscientiousness of a saint” (342).
In her own biography, Adams grants: “Harriet Martineau, as all will admit, was a remarkable woman; remarkble by virtue of her mental endowments; remarkable for force of character; remarkable in her long and active career; and remarkable in her ready acceptance of the crude speculations of an inferior mind; but remarkable, beyond everything, for her egotism” of "sublime proportions" (343). Adams quotes W. R. Greg, “Qu’elle avait le défauts de ses qualités” (344), dwelling further on Martineau's denial of merit in other people and her conviction that "the world...floated round her own individuality” (348). “As a novelist she cannot be ranked with George Eliot, Charlotte Brontë, or even Mrs. Gaskell. Her strength lay in logical force of statement and appositeness of illustration” (348). After this extensive assessment of Martineau's standing, Adams states that his sketch of her life is based on the Autobiography , which he faults: it is “amusing to perceive the evident belief that the reader will dwell as eagerly as she herself dwelt upon even the minutest particulars of her childhood” (349). “It would be uncharitable to criticize too severely the moribund utterances of a woman in Harriet Martineau’s physical condition” (393). Agnoticism is a “miserable creed” (393).



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16.
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.

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17.
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.

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18.
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



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19.
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)

TOC: Miriam; Deborah; Wife of Manoah; Naomi; Hannah.



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19A.
Ahlers, Lena C. Daughters Known to Fame. Chicago: A. Whitman, 1932; 1942. New York: A. Whitman, 1935.

TOC: Jane Addams; Louisa May Alcott; Susan B. Anthony; Amelia Barr; Clara Barton; Sara Bernhardt; Josephine Bonaparte; Rosa Bonheur; Charlotte Bronte; Elizabeth B. Browning; Alice Cary; Phoebe Cary; Cleopatra; Fanny Crosby -- Charlotte Cushman; Virginia Dare; Madam De Stael; Mary Baker Eddy; George Eliot; Esther; Fanny Fern; Barbara Frietchie; Lucy Page Gaston; Felicia D. Hemans; Julia Ward Howe; Anne Hutchinson; Hypatia; Jean Ingelow; Queen Isabella; Helen Hunt Jackson; Joan of Arc; Helen Keller; Lucy Larcom; Jenny Lind; Mary Lyon; Marie Antoinette; Mary, Queen of Scots; Maria Mitchell; Lucretia Mott; Florence Nightingale; Ouida; Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; Molly Pitcher; Pocahontas; Adelaide Proctor; Betsy Ross; Ruth; Sacajawea; Anne Howard Shaw; Kate Shelley; Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Celia Thaxter; Queen Victoria; Martha Washington; Emma Willard; Frances E. Willard; Ella Flagg Young.



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20.
Aikman, Duncan. Calamity Jane and the Lady Wildcats. New York: Holt, 1927.

TOC: Calamity Jane; The Woman Has to Suffer: Cattle Kate; Belle Starr; The Extinction of a Comet: Lola Montez; The last Lady Road Agent: Pearl Heart; Mme. Moustache and Some Gaming Ladies; And Other Wildcats: Minnie, Poker Alice, Kitty the Schemer; The Claw of Respectability: Mrs. William Arthur, Miss Pellet; A Note on Carrie Nation; Bridget Grant.



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21.
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.



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22.
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.



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23.
Alger, Rev. W. R. The Friendships of Women. 3d ed., Boston: Roberts, 1867; 1868; 1870; 1872; 1875; 1882; 1885.

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24.
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: Florence Nightingale. Frances Ridley Havergal. Catherine Marsh. Mrs. Ranyard (“L. N. R.”) . See companion volumes by Browne and Tomkinson.



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25.
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.



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26.
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.”



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27.
American Sunday-School Union. Notable Women of Olden Times. Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1852.

TOC: Sarah; Hagar; Rebekah; Leah and Rachel; Miriam; Deborah; Jezebel; Athaliah; Esther.



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28.
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.



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29.
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.



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---. 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.

TOC: Anne of Bohemia; Anne Boleyn; Anne Askew; Katharine Parr; Lady Jane Grey; Katharine Willoughby; Anne de Tserclas; Katharine Vermilla; Queen Elizabeth; Mildred Cooke; Anne Cooke; Katharine Hamilton; Helen Stark; Isabel Scrimger; Elizabeth Aske and Marjory Bowes; Elizabeth Campbell; Eliz Knox; Wendelmuta Klaas; Lysken Dirks; Mrs. Robert Oguier; Betken; Elizabeth Vander Kerk; Charlotte De Bourbon; Louise De Colligny.



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31.
---. Memorable Women of the Puritan Times. 2 vols., London, [etc.]: Blackie, 1861; 1862.

Riches.

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32.
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.“

TOC: Susanna Wesley; Eliza Hessel; Elizabeth Fry; Amelia Wilhelmina Sieveking; Hannah More; Anne Grant; Anne Louisa Stael; Carolina, Baroness Naire; Felicia Dorothea Hemans; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Charlotte Nichols; Caroline Lucretia Hershel; Jane Anne Taylor (Janet Taylor); Selina, Countess of Huntingdon; Elizabeth, Duchess of Gordon; Mary Jane Graham; Fidelia Fiske.



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33.
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 Bristol,Finden, and Jameson, for literary heroines.



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34.
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].



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35.
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.



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36.
Ashton, Carrie May, comp. Glimpses of Sunshine in Woman's Century. [Rockford, IL: Morning Star, 1880s?].

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36A.
Ashton, Helen, and Katharine N. Davies. I Had a Sister; a study of Mary Lamb, Dorothy Wordsworth, Caroline Herschel [and] Cassandra Austen. London: L. Dickson, 1937. Folcroft, PA: Folcroft Library Editions, 1975. Norwood, PA: Norwood Editions 1976 Philadelphia: R. West, 1977.

TOC: Mary Lamb; Dorothy Wordsworth; Caroline Herschel; Cassandra Austen.



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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.

TOC: “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.

One of many volumes marketing girlhood/childhood. “Mothers of the Bible” is the volume by Sophia Goodrich Ashton.



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---. The Mothers of the Bible. Boston: Jewett, 1854; 1855. New York: Sheldon, Lamport & Blakeman, 1855; 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.



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Asquith, Emma Alice Margaret [Countess of Oxford and Asquith], ed. Myself When Young: By Famous Women of To-Day. [2d ed.], London: Muller, 1938.

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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.



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