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Short stories from the lives of remarkable women : being narratives of fact to correct fiction, as related to her children / by a mother.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood Available online
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- Book
- Series:
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Biography--Juvenile fiction.
- Women.
- Women--Intelligence levels--Juvenile fiction.
- Siblings--Juvenile fiction.
- Siblings.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Fathers--Juvenile fiction.
- Fathers.
- Intelligence levels.
- Women--Biography.
- Genre:
- Novels.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (186 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : James Miller, 1861.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Charlie returns from his first year at boys school with the mistaken impression that "women do not have half the sense of men" and his father dispels that feeling using the examples of the lives of several famous women.
- Contents:
- Lady Jane Grey
- Lady Anna Halket
- Lady Arundel
- Jane de Mountfort
- Madame Dacier
- Queen Elizabeth
- Liona
- Mademoiselle Maille
- Mary, Queen of William III
- Martha Glar
- Mademoiselle Delleglace
- Madame Lefort
- Madame de St. Balmont
- Madame de St. Nectaire
- Helena Lucretia Cornaro
- Inez de la Cruz
- Countess of Leicester
- Joan of Arc
- Madame de Mouchy
- Mademoiselles de Bussy and de Brion.
- Notes:
- Illustrations engraved and signed by Jocelyn - Purcell.
- Added title page, engraved.
- Publisher's catalogue follows text.
- Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
- Local Notes:
- Scanned copy imperfect: bleed-through of text; foxed; pages 1-44 too dark to read.
- OCLC:
- 905336033
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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