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Noted Women of Europe and America, authors, artists, reformers, and heroines, queens, princesses, and women of society, women eccentric and peculiar : from the most recent and authentic sources / by James Parton, author of Life and times of Benjamin Franklin, Life of Thomas Jefferson, Life of Voltaire, General Butler in New Orleans, Life of Aaron Burr, People's Book of Biography, Life of Andrew Jackson, etc.
LIBRA - Rare CT3234 .P33 1884 Klavans copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parton, James, 1822-1891, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Europe--Biography.
- Women.
- Women--United States--Biography.
- Europe.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Klavans, Nancy (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 646 pages, [24] leaves of plates : portraits ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, Mass. : Wilson Brothers, 81 Kilby Street, 1884.
- Contents:
- Preface
- Sally Bush-Abraham Lincoln's Good Step-Mother
- Lydia Maria Child
- Miss Prudence Crandall
- Mrs. Stowe and Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Miss Alcott
- George Eliot
- Princess Louise
- Fanny Mendelssohn
- Angelica Kaufmann
- Baroness Burdett-Coutts
- Celia Thaxter
- The Wife of Thomas Carlyle
- The Wife of Benedict Arnold
- Adelaide Procter
- Lady Bloomfield
- The Mother of Victor Hugo
- Laura Bridgman
- The Wife of George Washington in Her Workroom at Mount Vernon
- Madame de Staël and Napoleon Bonaparte
- The Wife of Frederick the Great
- The flight of Eugénie
- Caroline Herschel
- Phoebe Yates Pember in the confederate hospitals
- Maria Mitchell
- Mrs. Trollope
- Adelaide Phillips
- Two Queens, the daughters of James II of England
- Mrs. Somerville
- Lady Morgan
- Maria Theresa
- Lady Franklin
- Madame de Miramion
- An evening with Rachel
- Josephine and Bonaparte
- Trial of Jeanne Darc, commonly called Joan of Arc
- Girlhood of Queen Elizabeth
- The Wife of Lafayette
- Betsy Patterson, otherwise Madame Jerome Bonaparte of Baltimore
- Some ladies of the old school
- Toru Dutt
- Peg O'Neal
- Harriet Martineau
- An old lady's recollections, ninety years of New England life
- Grace Darling revised
- George Sand
- Charlotte Cushman
- Mrs. L.M. Monmouth, and how she lived on forty dollars a year
- The Brontë sisters.
- Notes:
- "Copyrighted, 1883, by the Phoenix Publishing Company, Hartford, Conn."--Title page verso
- Light brown cloth boards, decorated and lettered in black and gold on front cover and spine.
- Local Notes:
- Klavans Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Nancy Klavans in 2016.
- OCLC:
- 23104486
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