In the schools, side by side with boys, our girls study civics. Side by side with boys, they salute the Flag. Grown to womanhood, still side by side with men, they will help to uphold all the sacred traditions for which our Flag stands,—the true woman never forgetting that the home and the family are the bulwarks of the country. E. H. CONTENTS PAGE JOAN OF ARC 1 DOROTHY PAYNE MADISON 13 ELIZABETH FRY 27 LUCRETIA MOTT 35 MARY LYON 49 DOROTHEA DIX 61 MARGARET FULLER 75 HARRIET BEECHER STOWE 83 MARIA MITCHELL 99 LUCY STONE 107 JULIA WARD HOWE 115 QUEEN VICTORIA 123 FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE 133 SUSAN B. ANTHONY 143 MARY A. LIVERMORE 151 CLARA BARTON 165 HARRIET HOSMER 173 LOUISA M. ALCOTT 183 FRANCES E. WILLARD 199 WOMEN ON THE BATTLE-FIELD AND IN PIONEER LIFE 207 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Joan of Arc: The Peasant Girl _Frontispiece_ "The Maid of Orleans" 11 Dorothy Payne Madison 12 Elizabeth Fry 26 Lucretia Mott 34 Mary Lyon 48 Dorothea Dix 60 Margaret Fuller 74 Harriet Beecher Stowe 82 Maria Mitchell 98 Lucy Stone 106 Julia Ward Howe 114 Queen Victoria 122 Florence Nightingale 132 Susan B. Anthony 142 Mary A. Livermore 150 Clara Barton 164 Harriet Hosmer 172 Louisa M. Alcott 182 Frances E. Willard 198 Martha Washington 206 Molly Pitcher 210 A GROUP OF FAMOUS WOMEN "_The woman's cause is man's; they rise or sink Together, dwarf'd or godlike, bond or free._" —ALFRED TENNYSON [Illustration: _Henri Chapu, (1833-1891)_ _Louvre_ JOAN OF ARC: THE PEASANT GIRL AT DOMRÉMY] JOAN OF ARC (1410, 1412-1431)