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Scott, Eleanor [Helen Madeline Leys]. Heroic Women. London: Nelson, 1939.

TOC: Elizabeth Fry; Mother St. Dominic; Florence Nightingale; Christina Forsyth; Mary Bird.

The Nelsonian Library. Each chapter has a portrait of the woman it is about, either a photograph or a painted portrait (a twentieth-century romantic version of Nightingale). Frontispiece is a color modern version of a profile of Mrs. Fry seated reading the Bible in Newgate. The biographies tend to open with a novelistic scene, and dialogue is frequent. The portrait of "Christina Forsyth on Her Return from Africa" is unusual in noting "By courtesy of W.P. Livingstone, Esq." (facing p. 192): an older woman who appears much like a male explorer. Someone has annotated Forsyth's biography in pencil and red ink (in the foxed copy loaned by California State University, Sacramento): "Crossed in love; Housekeeper; marriage postponed; missionary" (pp. 196-7)' "School; Kafirs; Fingoes" (pp. 198-9, as Forsyth, then Miss Moir, is reading about the people she is going among); Paterson (the mission p. 201); "Marriage; Husband drowned" (pp. 208-9); "Work at Xolobe" (p. 213); "Work" (p. 229). Various passages in this biography are also marked vertically in the margins in blue pencil, for instance: "In those ten years she, a solitary white woman in a place which had been rightly called 'a nest of idolatry and vice', had created a civilized, happy community, where people...lived pleasantly together, learned trades...were educated at the school, and were learning decent habits of life" (234).

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