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Walsh, Walter. The Women Martyrs of the Reformation. London: Religious Tract Society, 1905; 1911.

Walsh noted on title page "F.R. Hist. S." (Fellow of the Royal Historical Society), author of The Religious Life and Influence of Queen Victoria (1902), George Eliot: Ethics and Religion (1919), and various volumes against Catholics, Jesuits, The Secret History of the Oxford Movement. "The Anti-Papal Library" list: "A Series of Works dealing with the Principles of Protestantism and the Conflict with Rome," Crown 8v0, cloth, 2s. 6d. each., published by the Religious Tract Society (six books including Rv. John Stoughton's The Homes and Haunts of Luther); 8 unnumbered pages at the back of the volume catalogue this library; no female biographies included. Frontispiece plate shows "A Martyr of the XVIth Century" being led down cathedral steps to public execution (Willem Geets painting). Seven other illustrations concern persecutions. This is an updated female counterpart to the Foxe's Book of Martyrs. Walsh in a brief preface says he tried to find "a lady" to collect a volume of female martyrs for Protestantism: "women have not been one whit behind their brethren in what they have endured for the love of Jesus," and "the noble army of Women Martyrs" has come for "almost every rank in life" (v-vi). He provides more than two pages of bibliography, including James Anderson's Ladies of the Reformation. Table of Contents divided by country, and most chapters have multiple subjects. Some of those below, e.g. France, do not list individuals but groups, and even when names are listed in table of contents, the text may have little more than a paragraph or a page on the person's martyrdom. Complete table of contents given only for England chapters and the final chapter.

TOC: Women Martyrs of England: Anne Askew; [ch. 2] Women Martyrs of England (continued): Agnes Grebil; Margaret Polley; Isabel Foster; Joan Lashford; Elizabeth Warne; Anne Albright; Joan Catmer; Agnes Snoth; Joan Sole; Alice Potkins; Joan Bradbridge; Petronil Appleby; The Wife of Manning; Katherine Allin; Elizabeth [_____]; A Blind Girl, a Blind Man, and a Blind Boy; [ch.3] Women Martyrs of England (continued) Joan Waste; Katherine Hut; Joan Horns; Elizabeth Thackville; Margaret Ellis; Anne Potten; Elizabeth Pepper; Agnes George; Joice Lewes; Margaret Hide; Agnes Stanley; Elizabeth Cooper; Cicely Ormes; [ch. 4] Women Martyrs of England (concluded) Alice Mount ; Rose Allin; Agnes Silverside; Helen Ewring; Elizabeth Folkes; Agnes Bongeor; Margaret Thurston; Margaret Mearing; Barbara Final; Widow of Bradbridge; Wife of Wilson; Alice Benden; Wife of Prest; Alice Driver; [ch.5] Women Martyrs of France; [ch.6] Women Martyrs of the Albigenses and Waldenses; [ch.7] Women Martyrs of the Netherlands; [ch.8] Women Martyrs of the Netherlands (concluded) ; [ch.9] Women Martyrs of Spain; [ch.10] Women Martyrs of Belgium, Germany, Bohemia, and Scotland: Antoinette Haveloos; Marion; Clara; Martha von Porzicz; Helen Stirk.

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