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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=fiction. A mix of historical fiction and biography, including literary heroines. 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. See also Pop Chart



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