Collective Biographies of WomenAn Annotated Bibliography
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Oliphant, Margaret, et al. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign: A Book of Appreciations. London: Hurst & Blackett, 1897. Folcroft, PA: Folcroft Library, 1969; 1974. Norwood, PA: Norwood, 1977. TOC: Mrs. Oliphant: The Sisters Brontë. Mrs. L. Linton: George Eliot. E. Lyall: Mrs. Gaskell. A. Sergeant: Mrs. Crowe; Mrs. Archer Clive; Mrs. Henry Wood. C.M. Yonge: Lady Georgiana Fullerton; Mrs. Stretton; Anne Manning. Mrs. Parr: Dinah Mulock (Mrs. Craik). Mrs. Macquoid: Julia Kavanagh; Amelia Blandford Edwards. Mrs. Alexander: Mrs. Norton. Mrs. Marshall: “A.L.O.E.” (Miss Tucker); Mrs. Ewing. Search OCLC WorldCat for this title. Search Google Books for this title.
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O'Mahoney, Katherine A. O'Keefe. Famous Irishwomen. Lawrence, MA: Lawrence Publishing, 1907. TOC: Introductory; Women of Pagan Ireland; Women of Christian Ireland; Virtue and Erin - Saxon and Guilt; The Flower of Leinster Dames; Famous for Martial Bravery; Famous in Exceptional Lines; Irish Wives and Mothers; A Few of Ireland's Martyrs; Martyrs to Love and Patriotism; Foundresses of Religious Orders; Foundresses American Branches of Religious Orders; Foundress of Trinity College; Famous Philanthropist; Famous on the Stage; Famous Irish Beauties; Irishwomen Famous in Literature; Literary Irishwomen Who Died in Other Lands; Present Day Literary Women in Ireland; Literary American Women of Irish Blood. The book contains illustrations of Scota, the Wife of Milesius; St. Bridget, Patroness of Ireland; an "Irish Lady"; "Michigan Bridget"; Nano Nagle; "New Orleans Margaret"; Katherine E. Conway. Search OCLC WorldCat for this title. Search Google Books for this title.
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O'Malley, Ida Beatrice. Great Englishwomen. London: Bell, 1933. Author of biography of Florence Nightingale, 1931. Possibly the same as a collection of the same title by M.B. Synge (London: Bell, 1911). Synge is identified as author of "Great Englishmen." The Baldwin Project: Bringing Yesterday's Classics to Today's Children: Table of Contents: Queen Bertha; Maude the Good; Eleanor of Aquitaine; Philippa of Hainault; Margaret of Anjou; The Lady Margaret; Margaret Roper; Lady Jane Grey; Princess Elizabeth; Lady Rachel Russell; Angelica Kaufmann; Hannah More; Elizabeth Fry; Mary Somerville; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Florence Nightingale. Search OCLC WorldCat for this title. Search Google Books for this title.
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O'Malley, I[da] B[eatrice]. Women in Subjection: A Study of the Lives of Englishwomen Before 1832. London: Duckworth, 1933. Tokyo: Athena Press, 2006. NOT:=history. Search OCLC WorldCat for this title. Search Google Books for this title.
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Omori, Annie Shepley, translator. Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan. With an Introduction by Amy Lowell, and with Illustrations. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1920. London: Constable, 1921. Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1935. TOC: The Sarashina Diary; The diary of Murasaki Shikibu; The diary of Izumi Shikubu. NOT:=auto/biography. Search OCLC WorldCat for this title. Search Google Books for this title.
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“One Who Knows Them.” Girls and Their Ways. Illustrated. London: Hogg, 1881. British Library. TOC: The Girl at Home; The Girl in her Leisure Hours; The Girl at School, The Girl and her Friends; The Girl Abroad, Character Sketches; A Girl’s Garden in Prose and Poetry; The Girl’s Amatuer Gardener’s Calendar; or, All the Year Round in the Girl’s Garden; The Girl’s Library – What to Read; The Girl in the Country, Pastime for Leisure Hours Throughout the Years; What the Girl Might and Should Be: Examples of Noble Girlhood from the Lives of Noble Women. Search OCLC WorldCat for this title. Search Google Books for this title.
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O'Reilly, Bernard. Heroic Women of the Bible and the Church: Narrative Biographies of Grand Female Characters of the Old and New Testaments, and of Saintly Women of the Christian Church, Both in Earlier and Later Ages. Illustrated. New York: Ford, 1877. Title Variant: Illustrious Women of Bible and Catholic Church History: Narrative Biographies of Grand Female Characters of the Old and New Testaments, and of Saintly Women of the Holy Catholic Church, Both in Earlier and Later Ages. New York: Kennedy, 1877; Dewing, 1889; 1893. Chicago: Hyland, 1889. New York: Kennedy, 1894; 1896; 1899; 1903; 1905. Search OCLC WorldCat for this title. Search Google Books for this title.
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Overton, Grant M. Women Who Make Our Novels. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1918; 1925; 1927; 1928; Revised Edition. 1931; Moffat, Yard, 1919; 1920; 1922. TOC: Edith Wharton; Alice Brown; Ellen Glasgow; Gertrude Atherton; Mary Roberts Rinehart; Kathleen Norris; Margaret Deland; Gene Stratton-Porter; Eleanor H. Porter; Kate Douglas Wiggin; Mary Johnston; Corra Harris; Mary Austin; Mary S. Watts; Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; Anna Katharine Green; Helen R. Martin; Sophie Kerr; Marjorie Benton Cooke; Grace S. Richmond; Willa Sibert Cather; Clara Louise Burnham; Demetra Vaka; Edna Ferber; Dorothy Canfield Fisher; Amelia E. Barr; Alice Hegan Rice; Alice Duer Miller; Eleanor Hallowell Abbott; Harriet T. Comstock; Honoré Willsie; Frances Hodgson Burnett. Search OCLC WorldCat for this title. Search Google Books for this title.
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Owen, Mrs. Octavius Freire [Emily]. The Heroines of Domestic Life. London and New York: Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, 1861; [1877]. TOC: Ruth; Antigone; Panthea; Eponina; Gertrude von der Wart; Margaret Roper; Anne Askew; Jeanne D'Albret; Pocahontas; Lucy Hutchinson; Lady Rachel Russell; Grizel Cochrane; Winifred, Countess of Nithsdale; Helen Walker; Flora MacDonald; Louise Schepler; Emilie de Lavalette; Elizabeth Fry; Prasca Loupouloff; Sarah Martin; Grace Darling; Florence Nightingale. British Library. Riches. Oldfield.
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Owen, Mrs. Octavius Freire [Emily]. The Heroines of History. New York: Carlton & Phillips; Cincinnati, OH: Hitchcock & Walden, 1854; 1856. London and New York: Routledge, 1854; 1858; [1877]. TOC: Jewish Era: Jael, or Jahel; Judith; Salamona; Mariamne. Classic Era: Semiramis; Penelope; Aspasia; Cornelia; Portia; Cleopatra; Arria; Boadicea; Zenobia. Modern Era: Jane de Montfort; Philippa of Hainault; Joan d'Arc; Margaret of Anjou; Isabella of Castile; Catherine de Medici; The Lady Jane Grey; Mary, Queen of Scots; Madame de Maintenon; Marie Antoinette. . British Library. See 391.
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