- Some Eminent Women of our Times
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Written by Millicent Garrett, a noted British feminist, suffragist and intellectual writer, this volume is comprised of short biographical sketches of 23 influential women from Jane Austen and Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Queen Victoria and Queen Louisa of Prussia.
- Chapters
- Preface
- Elizabeth Fry
- Mary Carpenter
- Caroline Herschel
- Sarah Martin
- Mary Somerville
- Queen Victoria
- Harriet Martineau
- Florence Nightingale
- Mary Lamb
- Agnes Elizabeth Jones
- Charlotte and Emily Brontë
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Lady Sale and her Fellow-Hostages in Afghanistan
- Elizabeth Gilbert
- Jane Austen
- Maria Edgeworth
- Queen Louisa of Prussia
- Dorothy Wordsworth
- Sister Dora
- Mrs. Barbauld
- Joanna Baillie
- Hannah More
- Prudence Crandall and Lucretia Mott