Some Eminent Women of Our Times: Short Biographical Sketches — John Stuart Mill — John Shaqi
Some Eminent Women of Our Times: Short Biographical Sketches
John Stuart Mill · en
An apology should, perhaps, be offered to the reader for the want of
arrangement in the sequence of these sketches. As they appeared month by
month, in 1887 and 1888, the incidents of the day sometimes suggested
the subject. Thus the papers on Queen Victoria and on Queen Louisa of
Prussia were suggested by the celebration of the Jubilee in June 1887,
and by the universal grief felt for the death of Queen Louisa’s son and
grandson in 1888. As the incidents mentioned in some sketches are
sometimes referred to in those that follow, it has been thought best not
to alter the sequence in which they originally appeared. The authorities
relied on are quoted in each paper.
MILLICENT GARRETT FAWCETT.
LONDON, 1889.
CONTENTS
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1. ELIZABETH FRY 1
2. MARY CARPENTER 9
3. CAROLINE HERSCHEL 18
4. SARAH MARTIN 29
5. MARY SOMERVILLE 35
6. QUEEN VICTORIA 46
7. HARRIET MARTINEAU 57
8. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE 69
9. MARY LAMB 79
10. AGNES ELIZABETH JONES 91
11. CHARLOTTE AND EMILY BRONTË 99
12. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING 111
13. LADY SALE AND HER FELLOW-HOSTAGES IN AFGHANISTAN 117
14. ELIZABETH GILBERT 128
15. JANE AUSTEN 136
16. MARIA EDGEWORTH 145
17. QUEEN LOUISA OF PRUSSIA 163
18. DOROTHY WORDSWORTH 176
19. SISTER DORA 186
20. MRS. BARBAULD 198
21. JOANNA BAILLIE 205
22. HANNAH MORE 211
23. THE AMERICAN ABOLITIONISTS—PRUDENCE CRANDALL AND LUCRETIA MOTT 223
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