E-text prepared by Emmy, D Alexander, and the Project Gutenberg 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 32363-h.htm or 32363-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/32363/pg32363-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32363/32363-h.zip) Transcriber's note: Characters immediately following a carat are superscripted. Multiple superscritped characters are preceded by a caret and enclosed in curly brackets. (Examples: Y^r, w^{ch}.) TEN GIRLS FROM HISTORY by KATE DICKINSON SWEETSER Author of "Ten Boys from History," "Ten Girls from Dickens," "Boys and Girls from Thackeray," "Boys and Girls from George Eliot." [Illustration: JOAN OF ARC] [Illustration] New York Duffield & Company 1912 Copyright, 1912, by Duffield & Co. CONTENTS PAGE JEANNE D'ARC: THE MAID OF FRANCE 11 VICTORIA: A GIRL QUEEN OF ENGLAND 41 SALLY WISTER: A GIRL OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 69 COFACHIQUI: AN INDIAN PRINCESS OF HISTORIC LEGEND 89 JENNY LIND: THE SWEDISH NIGHTINGALE 109 ELIZA LUCAS: A GIRL PLANTER OF THE 15TH CENTURY 123 LADY JANE GREY: THE NINE DAYS QUEEN 147 "GENTLE ANNIE": A DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT 181 MADELEINE DE VERCHÈRES: THE HEROINE OF CASTLE DANGEROUS 193 ADRIENNE DE LAFAYETTE: A YOUNG PATRIOT'S WIFE 267 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE JEANNE D'ARC _Frontispiece_ COFACHIQUI 90 LADY JANE GREY 148 MADELEINE DE VERCHÈRES 194 PREFACE As in the Ten Boys from History, so in this companion volume, the plan has been to call attention to the lives of girls who achieved some noteworthy success during youth, and in whose character courage was the dominant trait. Many authorities have been consulted in the re-telling of these stories, and in their presentation more attention has been paid to accuracy of historic fact than to the weaving of interesting romances, in the hope that this volume may be used as an introduction to the more detailed historical documents from which its sketches are taken. K. D. S. TEN GIRLS FROM HISTORY JEANNE D'ARC: The Maid of France