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Yardley, Margaret Tufts, comp. The New Jersey Scrap Book of Women Writers. New Jersey Board of Women Managers of the exhibits of the state of New Jersey; World's Columbian Exposition. Newark, NJ: Advertiser, 1893.
“Published by the Board of lady managers for New Jersey to represent the many writers who are not bookmakers at the World's Columbian exposition.”
TOC: Julia A. Elizabeth Kellogg; E. E. Plainfield Kenyon; Kate F. Kimball; Elizabeth Clementine Kinney; Mrs. J. H. Newark; Mabel E. Leatherby; Miss F. A. Elizabeth Lewis; Mrs. James Lippencott; Mary V. Littell; Miss Bertha Loomer; Ella F. Lustey; Mrs. Mary Lutz; Anna K. MacKenna; Pauline MacKinnon; Annie DuBois MacMahan; Nellie C. McCarthy; Harriet E. McIntosh; Lillian McNamara; Ida Marsh; Adelyn Martin; Mrs. A. F. R. Martin; Grace Mason; Margaret Mathers; Lille B. Mendell; Kate Mills; Julia Wilson Miner; M. M. Mitchell; Sarah Lizzie Mix; Miss Belle Mooney; Elizabeth A. Moore; Mrs. W. W. Morris; Mrs. N. M. Morrison; Mrs. F. J. Mumford; Mrs. Franklin Murphy; Rosa A. Nichols; Elizabeth S. Phelps; Emiline G. Pierson; M. H. Plainfield; Mrs. Ernest Poggi; Hester M. Poole; Louisa Powell; Mrs. Fred Pragburn; Marie I. Prevost; Lillian L. Price; Mme. A. Pupin; Loretta (Trixie) Quigley; Phebe Adaline Quimby; Margaret Finley Randolph; Ida May Raybert; Anna Raymond; Harriet L. Raismes; Virginia Y. Remnitz; Mrs. Icie Reynolds; Miss R. A. Rhees; Emma Locke Rianhardt; Sophie B. Ricord; Mabel Robinson; Mary P. Rogers; Mrs. William Roome; Florence Evelyn Russell; Mrs. H. C. Ruth; M. B. Ryerson; Diantha E. Sackett; Hetty Saunders; F. Adele Scofield; Mrs. C. W. Scott; Mary McCall Schulte; Mrs. J. C. Scudder; Edith G. Seran; Harriet Ridgeway Shreene; Mary E. C. Shreeve; Alice Brognard Simpson; Emma J. Smith; Joanna D. H. Smith; Marion Couthouy Smith; Mrs. Anna M. Spaulding; Aula P. Steele; Eleanor A. Sterling; Mrs. Edwin Stevens; Mrs. E. A. Stoddard; Isabel Stone; Rose Stuart; Kate Sweetzer; Miss Josephine Sullivan; Marion A. Taggart; May H. Taylor; Emma L. Thompkins; E. Thompson; Emma Lindley Thompson; Julia H. Treat; Maud Fay Trimble; M. A. Tunis; Adelaide Gesner Twisaday; Annie E. Tynan; Mrs. Frank H. Valentine; Mrs. J. C. Van Dyck; Mrs. M. Van Derveer; Anna H. Van Meter; Elizabeth B. Vermilye; Mrs. Sadie Owen; Florence Waddington; Mrs. Carrie Stow Wait; Sarah S. Walker; Mrs. S. M. Walsh; Belle Ward; Hetta Lord Hayes Ward; Martha Washington; Miss Marion Wheeler; Mrs. Thomas Wheeler; Celia B. Whitehead; Charlotte D. Wilbur; Mary B. Wilcox; Marion White Wildrick.
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Yonge, Charlotte Mary, ed. Biographies of Good Women: More Precious Than Rubies. 1st ser. London: Mozley / Masters, 1862. 1st ser., 2d. ed., Mozley & Smith, 1876.
First series not located in Bodleian or British Library. Also relevant, by Yonge: The Making of a Missionary, or Daydreams in Earnest [1900]; Aunt Charlotte's Stories of German History for the Little Ones [a series by country, in the 1870s]; Hannah More [a biography, 1888]; A Book of Worthies: Gathered from the Old Histories and Now Written Anew by the Author of ‘The Heir of Redclyffe’ (London: Macmillan, 1869), Golden Treasury Series , all-male. Cambridge University Library copy of 1862 edition identifies the editor as "By the Author of the 'Heir of Redclyffe.'" The compact volume in brown cloth has a tight zig-zag pattern stamped on the covers. Running headers "Biographies of Good Women" (verso) and the subject's name (recto). The biographies are largely reprints from different magazines, e.g. Anny Gurney, Gentlemen's Magazine 1857; Amalie Sieveking, Englishwoman's Journal , March, 1860. This book apparently was catalogued or shelved alongside a621, Bessie Parkes, Vignettes ; Yonge has Sm. 22, Parkes has Sm. 23 label; on lower spine Parkes is labeled 40 but Yonge is labeled 18.
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Yonge, Charlotte Mary, Biographies of Good Women: Chiefly by Contributors to ‘The Monthly Packet.’ Edited by the Author of The Heir of Redclyffe. London: Mozley, 1862. 2d ser. [At head of title: ‘More precious than rubies.’] London: Mozley, 1865. 2 vol., London: Innes, 1892. “3rd and cheaper issue” [contents of vol. 1 below], London: A. D. Innes, 1893.
A collection of women biographies, each written by different authors. The biographies aim to show both the strengths and weaknesses of these women. Written chiefly for young girls, “who are now forming their characters, and preparing to belong to one or other of the classes of women we have here described – the Sufferers – the Learners – the Workers” (from Preface).
TOC: vol. I: Olympia Morata; Lady Fanshawe; Mrs. Hutchinson; Lady Russell; Lady Grisel Baillie; Countess of Balcarres; Mum Bett; Elizabeth Carter; Elizabeth Smith; Mrs. Grant of Laggan; Caroline Perthes; Princess Galitzin; Madame Swetchine; Mrs. Fry; Miss Anna Gurney; Amalie Sieveking; vol. II: Vittoria Colonna; Margaret More; Madame Duplessis Mornay; La Mere Angelique; Madame Guyon; Madame de la Garaye; Meta Klopstock; Mrs. Trimmer; Hannah More; Elizabeth of France; The Five Sisters Noailles; Mrs. Siddons; Mrs. Lyde Browne; Mrs. Leadbeater; Harriet M. Bowdler; Dorothy Wordsworth; Sarah Martin; Eugenie de Guerin.
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Yonge, Charlotte Mary, A Book of Golden Deeds of All Times and All Lands. Gathered and Narrated by the Author of The Heir of Redclyffe. 1864; 1865; 1866. Boston: Sever, Francis, 1869; 1870; 1873. London: Macmillan, 1874; 1876; 1877; 1879; 1881; 1882; 1885; 1888; 1892. New York: Hurst, [1890s?]; Allinson, [1890s?]. Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry [1899?].
Chapter titles: What is a Golden Deed?; Regulus; The Stories of Alcestis and Antigone; How One Man Has Saved A Host; The Pass of Thermopylae; The Two Friends of Syracuse; The Brave Brethren of Judah; Withstanding the Monarch in His Wrath; The Last Fight in the Colosseum; The Shepard Girl of Nanterre; Leo the Slave; Guzman el Bueno; Faithful till Death; The Keys of Calais; The Battle of Sempach; Sir Thomas More's Daughter; The Voluntary Convict; The Housewives of Lowenburg; Fathers and Sons; Heroes of the Plague; The Faithful Slaves of Haiti; The Petitioners for Pardon; Agostina of Zaragoza; Casal Novo; The Mad Dog; The Monthyon Prizes; The Loss of the Drake and the Magpie; The Chieftainess and the Volcano; The Rescuers; The Rescue Party.
NOT:=male-female, miscellany, advice. Anecdotes. All page citations in the text are to the 1892 ed.
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Yonge, Charlotte Mary, Womankind. New York: Macmillan, 1877; 1878. London, Mozley & Smith, 1877; 1878; Smith, 1878; 1881; Smith and Innes 1889; Smith and James, 1889. 2d ed. New York: Macmillan, 1882; 1890.
NOT:=advice.
Chapter titles: Woman’s Status; Nursery Training; Early Religious Training; Virtues and Faults of Childhood; Home, School, or Governess; Lessons; Culture.
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Yonge, Charles Duke. The Seven Heroines of Christendom: Joan of Arc, Margaret of Anjou, Isabella of Castile, Charlotte, Countess of Derby, Maria Theresa, Flora MacDonald, Marie Antoinette. London: Mullan, 1878; Sonnenschein, 1878; 1879; 1888; 1891.
TOC: Joan of Arc; Margaret of Anjou; Isabella of Castile; Charlotte, Countess of Derby; Maria Theresa; Flora MacDonald; Marie Antoinette.
Biographer of Scott, Marie Antoinette, etc.; author of school texts in history and classics; translator of Cicero; Parallel Lives of Ancient and Modern Heroes (London: Chapman, n.d.).
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Yu, T'ing-shih. A Book of Famous and Beautiful Chinese Ladies From All Antiquity. n.p., 1898.
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