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Daughters of genius : a series of sketches of 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.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parton, James, 1822-1891, author.
- Series:
- Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision.
- Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Biography.
- Women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (563 pages) : illustrations, portraits.
- Other Title:
- Daughters of genius
- Place of Publication:
- Hubbard Brothers Publishers
- Contents:
- Sally Bush
- The Bront�e sisters
- Queen Victoria
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Mrs. Stowe and Uncle Tom's cabin
- Miss Alcott
- George Eliot
- Princess Louise
- Fanny Mendelssohn
- Angelica Kaufmann
- Baroness Burdett-Coutts
- Girlhood of Queen Elizabeth
- The wife of Thomas Carlyle
- The wife of Benedict Arnold
- Adelaide Procter
- Lady Bloomfield
- The mother of Victor Hugo
- Laura Bridgeman
- The wife of George Washington in her workroom at Mount Vernon
- Madame de Sta�el and Napoleon Bonaparte
- The wife of Frederick the Great
- The flight of Eug�enie
- Caroline Herschel
- Charlotte Cushman
- Maria Mitchell
- Mrs. Trollope
- Adelaide Phillips
- Two queens; the daughters of James II of England
- An evening with Rachel
- Josephine and Bonaparte
- Lady Morgan
- Maria Theresa
- Lady Franklin
- Madame de Miramion
- Peg O'Neal
- Mrs. L.M. Monmouth, and how she lived on forty dollars a year
- Trial of Jeanne Darc, commonly called Joan of Arc
- Harriet Martineau
- The wife of Lafayette
- Betsy Patterson, otherwise Madame Jerome Bonaparte of Baltimore
- Some ladies of the old school
- Toru Dutt
- George Sand.
- Notes:
- Portraits engraved by J.C. Buttre, A. Robin and Claus & Co. Boston.
- Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
- OCLC:
- 892820578
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