E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Jeannie Howse, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 35994-h.htm or 35994-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/35994/pg35994-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/35994/35994-h.zip) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's note: | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has | | been preserved. | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For | | a complete list, please see the end of this document. | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ [Illustration: I bring you the best help that ever Knight or City had For it is God's help not sent for love of me but by God's good pleasure] HEROINES THAT EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages CO-EDITED BY HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE AND KATE STEPHENS DECORATED BY BLANCHE OSTERTAG [Illustration] New York Doubleday, Page & Company 1908 COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY PUBLISHED, FEBRUARY, 1908 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The editors and publishers wish to acknowledge the courtesy of authors and publishers named below, for the use of certain material in this volume: To Mrs. Elizabeth E. Seelye for material adapted for Pocahontas, from her volume entitled "Pocahontas" (copyrighted, 1879, by Dodd, Mead & Company); to Messrs. Harper and Brothers and to the Estate of Mr. John S.C. Abbott for material adapted for Madame Roland; to Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Company for material adapted for Alcestis, Antigone and Iphigenia; to Messrs. E.P. Dutton & Company for material adapted for Lady Jane Grey; to the Macmillan Company for certain material in Paula; to Messrs. Hutchinson & Company, London, for material adapted for Sister Dora. INTRODUCTION