early histories of women

"Unstoried in History"? Early Histories of Women (1652-1902) in the Huntington LibraryCollectionsAuthor(s): Miriam Elizabeth BursteinSource: Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 64, No. 3/4 (2001), pp. 469-500Published by: University of California PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3817922 .

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"Unstoried in History"? Early Histories of Women (1652-1902)

in the Huntington Library Collections

MIRIAM ELIZABETH BURSTEIN

I n 1833, an anonymous American writer disingenuously wondered "why woman has never found an historian."' As it happened, women had been

finding historians for quite some time-centuries, in fact-and with the ad- vent of cheap printing techniques, they were about to find a great many more. Yet well into the 198os and early 1990s, contemporary feminist scholars were still

remarking on the absence of women from the historical record: "It is clearly not the absence of women, but the sense that such information was not relevant to the concerns of 'history,"' says Joan Wallach Scott, "that led to the invisibility of women in formal accounts of the past."2 But given new interest in popular literature (including, more recently, popular history), not to mention the integration of women's studies programs into the academic establishment, scholars have begun paying more attention to the historiography of women's history. As they have dis- covered, women's history was of abiding popular and even scholarly interest

long before the rise of academic feminist scholarship. Moreover, the growing body of research in this field raises important questions in a wide variety of historical fields beyond its immediate audience: biography and autobiography; the rise of women's studies; popular publishing; historical fiction and its relation to history; the history of feminism; Christianity and culture; and, of course, "mainstream"

historiography.3

The research for this project was partly completed during a Mellon Fellowship held at the Huntington Library. 1. "Woman. A Rhapsody," The Western Monthly Magazine 1 (January 1833): 40. z. Joan Wallach Scott, "The Problem of Invisibility," in S. Jay Kleinberg, ed., Retrieving Womens History:

Changing Perceptions of the Role of Women in Politics and Society (Oxford, 1988), 1o.

3. The literature is rapidly expanding. For general overviews, see Nina Baym, American Women Writers and the Work of History, 179-186o (New Brunswick, N.J., 1995); Miriam Elizabeth Burstein, "From Good Looks to Good Thoughts: Popular Women's History and the Invention of Modernity, ca. 1830-1870," Modern

Philology 97 (1999): 46-75; Natalie Zemon Davis, "Women's History in Transition: The European Case," Feminist Studies 3 (1976): 83-103; idem, "Gender and Genre: Women as Historical Writers," in Patricia H. Labalme, ed., Beyond Their Sex: Learned Women of the European Past (New York and London, 1980), 153-82; Greg Kucich, "Romanticism and Feminist Historiography," The Wordsworth Circle 24 (1993): 133-40; Rohan Maitzen, "'This Feminine Province': Historical Biographies by Victorian Women," Victorian

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The Huntington Library possesses a strong collection of early women's histories that should be of interest to anyone studying the subject. This finding aid lists approximately one hundred and fifty English-language works in the

Huntington's holdings, published between 1652 and 1902. The library's holdings are strongest in the Victorian period, with an emphasis on American works and American reprints of British publications (sometimes including more than one edition of a particular work, or both British and American imprints).

Readers new to this field may wonder what genres are classified as "early women's history." I have followed standard procedure in the recent scholarship by emphasizing Plutarchan biographies-a series of biographical sketches, with each sketch supposedly illustrating some national trait, moral virtue, spiritual characteristic, or the like. I have also included biographical encyclopedias and narrative histories of women (a rarer form). The appendix lists works that, while not treating the history of women per se, nevertheless included at least one chapter solely devoted to that subject. (ohn Millar's On the Origin and Distinction of Ranks, which strictly speaking should be in the appendix, has been put in the main list: recognized in its own time as a major work, it powerfully influenced historians in the later eighteenth century and is a must-read for anyone inter- ested in women's history.) With some misgivings, I have excluded missionary histories, histories of women's education, histories of the Temperance movement, some legal histories, anthropological studies of the family, and a few memoirs: while one can certainly argue for their relevance, such works threatened to expand this already lengthy finding aid to unmanageable proportions. I have also excluded periodical articles and microfilms

Compiling this list revealed some thought-provoking trends. First, the ratio of male-to-female authors in the Huntington's collection is nearly equal: women's

history was not necessarily a "woman's job." Although women's history had some

pretensions to high culture during the eighteenth century, when it was affiliated with philosophical history, it became a hack genre during the cheap publishing explosion of the Victorian period-but one practiced by men and women in vir-

tually equal numbers. Many of these writers also published historical fiction, popular science, etiquette manuals, and the like; Agnes Strickland, the best- known and most-respected among them, began her career as a bad poet and later wrote historical fiction, children's stories, and book reviews, among other things.

Studies 38 (1995): 371-93; Billie Melman, "Gender, History, and Memory: The Invention of Women's Past in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries," History and Memory 5 (1993): 5-41; Bonnie Smith, "The Contribution of Women to Modern Historiography in Great Britain, France, and the United States, 1750-194o," American Historical Review 89 (1984): 709-32; Martha Vicinus, "Models for Public Life: Biographies of'Noble Women' for Girls," in Claudia Nelson and Lynne Vallone, eds., The Girls Own: Cultural Histories oftheAnglo-American Girl, 183o-1915 (Athens, Ga., and London, 1994), 52-70.

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EARLY HISTORIES OF WOMEN AT THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY

Second, the Huntington's emphasis on American reprints points up a one-way- street of the popular publishing trade. While some American works found British

publishers-notably, histories by Lydia Maria Child, Elizabeth E Ellet, and Sarah

Josepha Hale-they seem to have been the exception rather than the rule. Those that did find their way to British booksellers were seldom reviewed. Third, it is clear that the earliest Victorian publications dominated the reprint market, with

pride of place going to Agnes Strickland and (a distant second) Anna Jameson; even the most successful publications of later periods, such as Laura Carter

Holloway Langford's The Ladies of the White House, failed to do equivalent busi- ness. Fourth, the reader may notice a certain crass commercialism: some books

appeared in virtually identical form under different titles (for example, see Eddy 1850). Fifth and finally, copyright was of little interest at this level of popular publishing. Occasionally, books are copied wholesale, as represented on this list

by Tasistro 1850; similarly, the British Library has a Calcutta imprint of an

apparently "new" work, The History of the Female Sex, or the Gradual Progress of Women (1878), which was lifted without acknowledgment from Henry Home, Lord Kames's Sketches of Man (1774; see appendix). Plagiarism was en-

couraged by the emergence of such "canonical" figures as Queen Elizabeth I, the Quaker reformer Elizabeth Fry, Lady Jane Gray, Mary, Queen of Scots, Lady Rachel Russell, Madame de Stael, and Queen Victoria; authors could and regu- larly did copy from each other sentences, paragraphs, or whole chapters about these figures.

Although my mandate was to produce a finding aid, not a full descriptive bibliography, I have sketched reprint histories (place and date of publication only, but including alternative titles). Such histories were compiled using the National Union Catalog, British Library Catalog, Library of Congress catalog, OCLC, the online catalogs of second-hand book dealers, and contemporary book reviews; they include twentieth-century reprints but exclude copies produced by means of microfilm, microfiche, and books-on-demand. However, given the murky data available for popular literature-often designedly ephemeral and rarely collected-readers should consider lists of reprints as indicating the likely range of publication dates instead of all the publication dates. (In some cases, this caveat extends to the date of first publication.) I have noted when books form part of a particular collection, and I have also indicated any noteworthy features or flaws (for example, A.L.S.; pages missing or misprinted), some of which are not indicated in the Huntington's card catalog. I have supplied a full or partial list of the contents for approximately one-third of the titles. For reasons of space, some subtitles were sharply abridged, and the books in the appendix were left unannotated.

List begins overleaf:

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1652 LeMoyne, Peter [Pierre]. The Gallery ofHeroick Women. Trans. the Marquesse of Winchester. London: R. Norton for Henry Seile, 1652. Accession/call no. 132142

Original French publication: 1647 Bridgewater copy; library holds another copy. Notes: each example is broken down into seven parts (portrait, discussion of the woman in question, a sonnet, an elogy, a moral reflection, a moral question, and further biographical examples raised by the question). Debora, Iahel, Iudith, Salomona, Mariamne (the Gallant Jewish Women); Panthea, Camma, Artemisia, Monima, Zenobia (the Gallant Barbarian Women); Lucrecia, Claelia, Porcia, Arria, Paulina (the Gallant Roman Women); the French Iudith, Eleonor of Castile, the Maid of Orleans, the Victorious

Captive, Mary Stewart (the Gallant Christian Women).

1692 [Tate, Nahum]. A Presentfor the Ladies: Being an Historical Vindication of the Female Sex. To which is added, the Character ofan Accomplish'd Virgin, Wife, And Widow, in Verse. London: Francis Saunders, 1692. Accession/call no. 471346 Reprint: London, 1693

1723 De Serviez, Monsieur Jacques Roergas]. The Lives andAmours of the

Empresses, Consorts to the First Twelve Caesars ofRome... Trans. Geo. James. London: Abel Roper, 1723. Accession/call no. 448090 Original French publication: 1718 Original English publication: London, 1715 Reprints: Dublin, 1752 (also held by the library); London, 1899 (also held by the library); New York, 1913; New York, 1925; New York, 1932; New York, 1935.

1752 Ballard, George. Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain Who Have Been

Celebratedfor Their Writings or Skill in the Learned Languages, Arts and Sciences. Oxford: W. Jackson, 1752. Accession/call no. 201759 Library's copy is imperfect (pp. 241-42 missing). Reprints: London, 1775; Detroit, 1985 (both held by the library).

1766 Biographium Faemineum. The Female Worthies: Or, Memoirs of the Most Illustrious Ladies, ofallAges and Nations... 2 vols. London: S. Crowder, and J. Payne; J. Wilkie, and W. Nicoll; J. Wren, 1766. Accession/call no. 475971

1771 Millar, John. Observations Concerning the Distinction of Ranks in Society. 2nd ed., greatly enl. London: John Murray, 1778. Accession/call no. 263553 Original publication: London, 1771 Reprints: Leipzig, 1772 (German trans.); London, 1773; as The Origin ofthe

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Distinction of Ranks, . . . 1778 (also held by the library); Amsterdam, 1773 (French trans.); Glasgow, 1779; London, 1781; Basil, 1791; Edinburgh, 1806 (also held by the library); Frankfurt-am-Main, 1967 (German trans.); Frankfurt-am-Main, 1985 (German trans.); Aalen, 1986; Bristol, 1990. The third edition was reprinted in slightly abridged form in William C. Lehmann, John Millar of Glasgow, 1735-1801: His Life and Thought and His Contributions to SociologicalAnalysis (Cambridge, 1960); and the book is lib-

erally quoted in [ohn Adams], Woman. Sketches of the History, Genius,

Disposition, Accomplishments, Employments, Customs and Importance of the Fair Sex, In All Parts of the World. . . (London, 1790).

1779 Alexander, William. The History of Women, from the EarliestAntiquity, to the Present Time; Giving an Account ofAlmost Every Interesting Particular

Concerning that Sex, Among All Nations, Ancient and Modern ... 2 vols. London: W. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1789. Accession/call no. 24347 Halsey copy Original publication: London and Dublin, 1779 Reprints: London, 1782, Philadelphia, 1795; Paris, 1794 (French trans.); Philadelphia, 1796 (library hold another copy in the Brock collection); Cincinnati, 1898; New York, 1976; Zurich, 1981 (German trans.); New York, 1987; Bristol, 1995. The book is liberally quoted in [John Adams], Woman. Sketches of the History, Genius, Disposition, Accomplishments, Employments, Customs and Importance of the Fair Sex, In All Parts of the World. . . (London, 1790).

1796 Boyd, William. Woman: A Poem ... Boston: John W. Folsom, 1796. Accession/call no. 83798 Wendell sale

Reprint: Tarrytown, New York, 1933 (also held by the library)

1798 Pilkington, Mrs. [Mary]. A Mirrorfor the Female Sex. Historical Beautiesfor Young Ladies. Intended to Lead the Female Mind to the Love and Practice of Moral Goodness. Designed Principallyfor the Use of Ladies' Schools. London: Vernor and Hood, 1798. Accession/call no. 375654 Reprints: Hartford, 1799 (library has imperfect copy in the Brock collection, missing pp. xv-xxii and 185-209); London, 1799; Dublin, 1800; London, 1804; London, 1811.

1803 Hays, Mary. Female Biography; Or, Memoirs ofIllustrious and Celebrated Women, ofAllAges and Countries, Alphabetically Arranged. 6 vols. London: Richard Phillips, 1803. Accession/call no. CT3202 H35 Reprint: Philadelphia, 1807

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Segur, Jos. Alex. [Segur, Alexandre-Joseph-Pierre, Vicomte de] Women: Their Condition and Influence in Society. Trans. from the French. 3 vols. London: T. N. Longman and 0. Rees, 1803. Accession/call no. 217098 Original French publication: 1803

1804 Betham, Matilda. A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women ofEvery Age and Country. London: B. Crosby and Co.; Tegg and Castleman; and E. Lloyd, 1804. Accession/call no. CT3202.B4

Hamilton, Elizabeth. Memoirs of the Life ofAgrippina, the Wife of Germanicus. 3 vols. Bath: R. Cruttwell for G. and J. Robinson, 1804. Accession/call no. 491485

1808 Meiners, C[hristoph]. History of the Female Sex; Comprising a view of the Habits, Manners, and Influence of Women, Among all Nations, From the

EarliestAges to the Present Time. Trans. Frederic Shoberl. 4 vols. London:

Henry Colburn, 1808. Accession/call no. HQ1121 M5 Original German publication: 1788-1800

1821 Hays, Mary. Memoirs of Queens: Illustrious and Celebrated. London: T. and

J. Allman, 1821. Accession/call no. D1o7.3 H3 Stow Library copy Notes: over sixty queens, including Boadicea, Cleopatra, Elizabeth I, Maria Theresa, Marie Antoinette, Mary, Queen of Scots, Octavia, and Zenobia.

1827 Lee, Anna Maria. Memoirs ofEminent Female Writers, of AllAges and Countries. Philadelphia: T. Desilver, and Towar and Hogan, 1827. Accession/call no. 473208 Sometimes attributed to Benjamin Franklin French.

1829 Jameson, Mrs. Anna. Memoirs of the Loves of the Poets. Biographical Sketches of Women Celebrated in Ancient and Modern Poetry. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1857. Accession/call no. 472319 Fields collection

Original publication: as The Loves ofthe Poets, London, 1829 Reprints: London, 1831; New York, 1833; as The Romance of Biography; or, Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the PresentAge, London, 1837 (as per Quarterly Review 75 [Dec. 1844]); Philadelphia, 1844; Boston, 1858; Boston, 1861; Boston, 1864 (also held by the library); Boston, 1865; Boston, 1866; Boston, 1875; Boston, 1876; Boston, 1878; Boston, 1879; Boston, 1881; Boston and New York, 1885;

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Boston and New York, 1888; Boston, 1889; Boston and New York, 1890; Boston and New York, 1891; Boston and New York, 1892; Boston and New York, 1894; Boston and New York, 1898; Boston, 1900; Freeport, N.Y, 1872.

1831 Jameson, Mrs. Anna. Memoirs of Celebrated Female Sovereigns. 2nd ed.,

enlarged and corrected. 2 vols. London: Saunders and Otley, 1834. Accession/call no. 130177 Sessler copy Original publication: London, 1831 Reprints: New York, 1832; New York, 1836; New York, 1837; New York, 1839; London, 1840; New York, 1842; New York, 1844; New York, 1845; New York, 1848; New York, 1854; New York, 1858; New York, 1862; New York, 1868; New York, 1869; abridged, with additions, as Lives of Celebrated Female

Sovereigns and Illustrious Women, ... ed. Mary E. Hewitt, Philadelphia, 1870 (also held by the library); London, 1870; New York, 1871; New York, 1880; New York, 1900; as Lives of Celebrated Female Sovereigns and Illustrious Women, .. . Philadelphia, 190-; as Celebrated Female Rulers in History, New York, 1910; as Memoirs ofFamous Female Sovereigns, New York, 1910; as Celebrated Female Sovereigns, New York, 1910; as Celebrated Female Sovereigns, Chicago, 1915; Akron, Ohio, 1917. Notes: Semiramis; Cleopatra; Zenobia; Joanna I; Joanna II; Isabella of Castile, Mary, Queen of Scots; Queen Elizabeth; Christina; Anne; Maria Theresa; Catherine II.

1833 Child, L[ydia] Maria. Biographies of Good Wives. New ed., rev. New York: C. S. Francis and Co.; Boston: J. H. Francis, 1846. Accession/call no. 46457 Original publication: as Good Wives, Boston, 1833 Reprints: New York and Boston, 1847 (also held by the library); London, 1849; New York and Boston, 1850; New York, 1855; as Celebrated Women, or

Biographies of Good Wives, Boston, 1858; New York, 1859; New York, 1861; as Married Women: Biographies of Good Wives, New York, 1871. Notes: over forty wives profiled, including Mrs. Hutchinson, Mrs. Judson, and the Countess of Nithisdale.

Jameson, Anna. Beauties of the Court ofKing Charles the Second; A Series of Portraits, Illustrating the Diaries ofPepys, Evelyn, Clarendon, and Other

Contemporary Writers. With Memoirs Biographical and Critical... London: For Henry Colburn by Richard Bentley, 1833. Accession/call no. 131322 Includes an obituary of Mrs. Jameson. Reprints: with subtitle A Series ofMemoirs, Biographical and Critical, . ..

Philadelphia, 1834 (held by the library); hereafter as Memoirs of the Beauties of the Court of Charles The Second, with Their Portraits, After Sir Peter Lely and

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Other Eminent Painters, . . . London, 1838; Philadelphia, 1838 (held by the

library); London, 1851 (held by the library); New York, 1852; London, 1859; London, 1861 (held by the library); hereafter as Court Beauties of the Reign of Charles II, London, 1872 (held by the library); London, 1881; Boston, 1884. Notes: Queen Catherine of Braganza; the Duchess of Cleveland; the Countess de Grammont; the Countess of Ossory; Lady Denham; Nell

Gwynn; the Duchess of Somerset; the Duchess of Richmond; Mrs. Lawson; the Countess of Chesterfield; the Countess of Rochester; Miss Bagot; Mrs. Nott; the Countess of Southesk; Lady Bellasys; the Countess of Sunderland; Mrs. Middleton; the Countess of Northumberland; the Duchess of

Portsmouth; the Duchess of Devonshire; Mrs. Jennings.

Knapp, Samuel. Female Biography; Containing Notices ofDistinguished Women in Difnerent Nations andAges. Philadelphia: Thomas Wardle, 1846. Accession/call no. CT3202 K6 1846 Original publication: Philadelphia, 1833 Reprints: New York, 1834; Philadelphia, 1835; Philadelphia, 1836; Philadelphia, 1842; Philadelphia, 1843; Philadelphia, 1868.

1835 Child, L[ydia] Maria. BriefHistory of the Condition of Women, in Various Ages and Nations ... Revised and Corrected by the Author. 5th ed. 2 vols. New York: C. S. Francis and Co.; Boston: J. H. Francis, 1845. Accession/call no. HQi121 C53 1845 Original publication: New York and Boston, 1835

Reprints: London, 1835 (as per Monthly Review 1 [Feb. 1836]); Boston, 1840; Boston, 1843; New York, 1849; New York and Boston, 1854 (also held by the

library). Volume 1 is imperfect (pp. 3-6 missing).

Starling, Elizabeth. Noble Deeds of Woman; or, Examples of Female Courage and Virtue. Boston: Philips, Sampson, and Company, 1855. Accession/call no. 267939 Original publication: London, 1835 Reprints: Philadelphia, 1836; London, 1848; Boston, 1850; London, 185o; Boston, 1851; Boston, 1852; Boston, 1853; Boston, 1854; Boston, 1857; Boston, 1858; London, 1859 (also held by the library); Boston, 1860; London, 1864; London, 1872; London, 1879; Boston, 1881; London, 1883; London, 1891.

1840 Morgan, Lady, Sydney Owenson. Woman and Her Master. 2 vols. London:

Henry Colburn, Publisher, 1840. Accession/call no. 132620

John D. Crimmins sale

Reprints: Paris, 1840 (also held by the library); London, 1855; Westport, Conn., 1976.

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Strickland, Agnes. Lives of the Queens ofEngland, from the Norman Conquest; With Anecdotes of Their Courts, Now First Published fom Official Records and other Authentic Documents, Private as Well as Public. New ed. 12 vols. London:

Henry Colburn, 1842-48. Accession/call no. DA28.2 S77 Vols. 1, 3, and 4 are dated 1844; vol. 2 is dated 1842. Original publication: London, 12 vols., 1840-48

Reprints: almost annually in Philadelphia, New York, and/or London between 1849 and 1893 (London, 1851-52; Philadelphia, 1853; London, 1868-70; and London, 1885, are held by the library); Akron, Ohio, 1895; London, 1898-1901; London, 19-; Philadelphia, 1902-3; Philadelphia, 1903; London, 1904; London, 1912-16; London, 1913; Bath, 1972. Abridged editions: New York, 1857; New York, 1866; London, 1867. As A Series ofPortraits ofDistinguished Female Sovereigns, New York, 1851; New York, 1852; New York, 1854; New York, 1856; New York, 1861; New

York, 1866; New York, 1873. Abridged by Rosalie Kaufman, New York, 1883; Boston, 1887; New York, 1888; New York, 1893; New York, 1894; Chicago and New York, 1895. The Life of Queen Elizabeth appeared separately: as Memoirs ofElizabeth, Second Queen Regnant ofEngland and Ireland, Philadelphia, 1853; London, n.d.; New York, n.d.; as Life ofElizabeth, Queen ofEngland, New York, 1880;

abridged by Ida Taylor, London, 1905; London, 1906; New York, 1906; London and New York, 1910; London, 1915; London, 1924; North Dakota, 1950. The Life ofMary, Queen of Scots appeared separately: Edinburgh, 1864; London, 1873; London, 1883; Boston, 1886; abridged by Rosalie Kaufman as Life ofMary Stuart, Queen of Scotland, Boston, 1881; Boston, 1887; London, 1888; London, 1893; as Mary, First Queen Regnant ofEngland and Ireland, Philadelphia, 1902; New York and London, 1903; London, 1907; London, 1913. Excerpted as Memoirs of the Queens of Henry VIII, and his Mother, Elizabeth

ofYork, Philadelphia, 1853.

1842 Coxe, Miss [Margaret]. Claims of the Country on American Females. 2 vols. Columbus: Isaac N. Whiting, 1842. Accession/call no. HQ1423 C6

1843 Elwood, Mrs. [Anne]. Memoirs of the Literary Ladies ofEnglandfrom the Commencement of the Last Century. 2 vols. London: Henry Colburn, Publisher, 1843. Accession/call no. PR111 E5 Reprints: Philadelphia, 1845; New York, 1973. Notes: Twenty-nine sketches, including Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Mrs. Trimmer, Mrs. Barbauld, Mrs. Hannah More, Mrs. Inchbald, Mrs. Piozzi,

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Madame d'Arblay, Mrs. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Miss Jane Austen, Mrs. Hemans, and Miss Jane Taylor.

1844 Costello, Louisa Stuart. Memoirs ofEminent Englishwomen. 4 vols. London: Richard Bentley, 1844. Accession/call no. 58016 Includes an A.L.S. Sessler copy; another copy from the Stow Library Notes: Englishwomen between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries,

including Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Mary Stuart (Queen of Scots), Lady Rachel Russell, and Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough.

Wilson, Mrs. C. Baron. Our Actresses; Or, Glances at Stage Favourites, Past And Present. z vols. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1844. Accession/call no. 110159 Halsey copy; another copy from the Poor Library Notes: A previous owner, taking exception to the author's special pleadings for Mme. Vestris, has inscribed in the margin: A friend of mine whose verac-

ity I have no | reason to doubt, (a good looking dog by the | way) told me he once called on Madame I V. to take a box on her benefit night. I When he

put down a £1o in front of her, | Madame looked at him with a most | fasci-

nating look and said "Sir if this is I for a Box it is too much, if for anything else it is too little"!

1845 English Churchwomen of the Seventeenth Century. Derby: Henry Mozley and Sons, and James Burns, 1845. Accession/call no. DA377.5 E6

Reprints: London, 1846; New York, 1846; New York, 1847; New York, 1849. Notes: Lettice, Viscountess Falkland; Frances, Countess of Carbery; Dorothy, Countess of Sunderland; Elizabeth Lady Capel; Mrs. Basire; Lady Mary Wharton, Margaret, Lady Maynard; Anna, Lady Halket; Lady Jane Cheyne; Charlotte, Countess of Derby; Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery; and a series of short (one-page) sketches.

1846 Timpson, the Rev. Thomas. British Female Biography; Being Select Memoirs

OfPious Ladies, in Various Ranks ofPublic and Private Life ... London:

Aylott and Co., 1854. Accession/call no. DA28.7 T5 Original publication: London, 1846

1848 Ellet, Elizabeth E The Women of the American Revolution. 3 vols. 5th ed. New York: Charles Scribner, 1852-53. Accession/call no. E2o6 E44 Assembled from two different printings Church sale

Original publication: New York, 1848-50

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Reprints: almost annually in New York between 1849 and 1856; New York, 1861; New York, 1873; Philadelphia, 1900; New York, 1918; New York, 1969; Williamstown, Mass., 1980; as Revolutionary Women in the Warfor Independence, Westport, Conn., 1988.

Weld, Rev. H[oratio] Hastings, ed. The Women of the Scriptures. Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1848. Accession/call no. BS575 W4 Authors: Mrs. L. H. Sigourney; Rev. Edward H. May; Joseph L. Chester; H. Hastings Weld; C. C. Vanardsale D.D.; MaryJ. Reed; Marie Roseau; Rev. William Suddards; Mrs. Clara Lucas Balfour; Thomas G. Spear; Rt. Rev. Alonzo Potter, D.D.; John Tillson; Anonymous; Rev. Clement M. Butler; W. Gilmore Simms; Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale; Rev. Edmund Neville D.D.; Rev. C. Donald M'Leod; Rev. Geo. W. Bethune, D.D.; Samuel D. Patterson; Rev. Albert T. Chester, D.D.

1849 Green, Mary Anne Everett. Lives of the Princesses ofEngland, from the Norman

Conquest. 6 vols. London: Henry Colburn, 1849-55. Accession/call no. DAz8.3 G69 Reprints: with corrections, London, 185o-55 (also held by the library); London, 1857.

1850 Eddy, Daniel Clarke. Daughters of the Cross; Or, Womans Mission. Boston:

Dayton and Wentworth, 1855. Accession/call. no. 22485 Original publication: as Heroines of the Missionary Enterprise, Boston, 185o. Reprints: as Heroines of the Missionary Enterprise, ed. the Rev. John Cumming, London, 1854; as Ministering Women; or Heroines of the Missionary Enterprise, (London, n.d.); Daughters, ... Boston, 1854; Boston, 1856; Boston, 1857; as The Three Mrs. Judsons, and Other Daughters of the Cross, Boston, 1858; Boston, 1859; Boston, 1860; as The Heroines ofthe Church, or, Lives and Sufferings of Female Missionaries in Heathen Lands, Boston, 1866; as Christian Heroines, or Lives and Sufferings of Female Missionaries in Heathen Lands, Boston, 1881; as Ministering Women; or Heroines of the Missionary Enterprise, London, n.d.; as The Heroines of the Church, or, Lives and

Sufferings of Female Missionaries in Heathen Lands, Boston, 1978. Notes: Harriet Newell; Ann H. Judson; Elizabeth Hervey; Harriet B. Stewart; Sarah L. Smith; Eleanor Macomber; Sarah D. Comstock; Henrietta Shuck; Sarah B. Judson; Annie P. Townes; Mary E. Van Lennep.

Headley, P[hineas] C[amp]. Historical and Descriptive Sketches of the Women

of the Biblefiom Eve of the Old to the Marys of the New Testament. Auburn, N.Y.: Derby, Miller, and Company, 1852. Accession/call no. 427111 Original publication: Auburn, N.Y., 1850

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Identical to Women of the Bible, Boston, 1850; Boston, 1876? Reprints: almost annually in Auburn, N.Y., or New York between 1851 and

1859; New York, 1865.

Kavanagh, Julia. Woman in France During the Eighteenth Century. 2 vols. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1850. Accession/call no. DC36.2 K3 Sessler copy Reprints: Philadelphia, 1850; Philadelphia, 1862; London, 1864; New York and London, 1893 (library holds two copies); New York, 1914. Strickland, Agnes. Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses Connected with the Regal Succession of Great Britain. 2nd ed. 8 vols.

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1852. Accession/call no. DA758.2 S8 Sessler copy Vol. 2 is from the 1866 edition.

Original publication: Edinburgh, 1850-59 Reprints: New York, 1851-59; Edinburgh, 1853; New York, 1854-59; New York, 1857-64; New York, 1859-68; Edinburgh and London, 1861; Edinburgh and London, 1866; New York, 1873; as Agnes Strickland's Queens of Scotland, Boston, 1894; Chicago and New York, 1895. Abridged by Rosalie Kaufman as The Queens of Scotland, Boston, 1887.

Tasistro, Louis. Woman: Her Character, Her Position, and Her Treatment, From the Earliest Days Down to the Present Times. Being the Substance ofa Lecture Delivered Before the Baltimore Addison Lyceum ... Baltimore: John Murphy and Co., Ornamental Printers, 185o. Accession/call no. 152543

Appears to have been plagiarized from "On Female Cultivation," The Atheneum nos. 223, 224, 226, 250 (Feb. 4, 1832-Aug. 11, 1832), pp. 79-80, 95-96, 129, 521-22.

1851 Clement, J[esse]. Noble Deeds ofAmerican Women; with Biographical Sketches

of Some of the More Prominent. Intro. Mrs. L. H. Sigourney. Buffalo: G. H.

Derby, 1851. Accession/call no. 343225

Inspired by Starling (1835)

Reprints: almost annually in Buffalo, Auburn, and New York between 1852 and 1861 (1852 also held by the library); Boston, 1869; Boston and New York, 1873; Boston, 1875; New York, 1974; Williamstown, Mass., 1975.

1852 Ellet, Elizabeth E The Pioneer Women of the West. New York: Charles Scribner, 1852. Accession/call no. 44185

Reprints: Philadelphia, n.d. (also held by the library); New York, 1854;

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Philadelphia, 1873; Philadelphia, 1875; Philadelphia, 1886; Philadelphia, 19-; Freeport, N.Y., 1973.

Hale, Sarah Josepha. Womans Record; or, Sketches ofall Distinguished Women,

from the Creation to A.D. 1854. Arranged in Four Eras. With Selectionsfrom Female Writers ofEvery Age. 2nd ed., rev., with additions. New York: Harper and Brothers, Publishers, 1860. Accession/call no. CT3202 H3 1860

Original publication: New York, 1852

Reprints: London, 185- (as per Atheneum no. 1330 [Apr. 25, 1853]); New York, 1853; New York, 1855; New York, 1870; New York, 1873 (also held by the

library); New York, 1874; New York, 1876; New York, 1970; Detroit, 1974.

[Pardon, George Frederick]. Illustrious Women Who Have Distinguished Themselvesfor Virtue, Piety, and Benevolence. London: James Blackwood, 1852. Accession/call no. CT3202 P27 Reprints: London, 1861; London, 1868. Notes: Thirty women are profiled, including Queen Victoria; the Empress Eugenie; Lady Jane Grey; Mary, Queen of Scots; Queen Caroline; Queen Marie Antoinette; the Empress Josephine; Lady Rachel Russell; Elizabeth Fry; Harriet Martineau; Amelia Opie; Hannah More; Felicia Hemans; Charlotte

Corday; L.E.L.; Jenny Lind; Florence Nightingale; and Elizabeth, Anna, and

Emily Blackwell.

1854 Balfour, Clara L. Working Women of This Century: The Lesson of Their Lives. 3rd ed. London and New York: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, n.d. [1868]. Accession/call no. DA531.l B3 Original publication: as Working Women of this Last Half Century, ... London, 1854. Reprints: London, 1856; London, 1860. Notes: Mrs. Trimmer; Mrs. Hannah More and Her Sisters; Mrs. Barbauld; Elizabeth Smith; Charlotte Elizabeth; Mrs. Sherman; Mrs. Mary Lundie Duncan; Sarah Martin; Mrs. Ann H. Judson; Hannah Kilham; Charlotte Bronte.

Crosland, Mrs. Newton [Camilla Dufour Toulmin]. Memorable Women: The

Story of their Lives. London: David Bogue, 1854. Accession/call no. CT3230 T6

Reprints: New York, 18-; Boston, 1856; Boston, 1857; London, 1857; London, 1862; London, 1870. Notes: Rachel Wriothesley (Lady Russell); Madame d'Arblay and Mrs. Piozzi; Mary L. Ware; Mrs. Hutchinson and Lady Fanshawe; Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli); Lady Sale.

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Griswold, Rufus Wilmot. The Republican Court orAmerican Society in the

Days of Washington. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1855. Accession/call no. E164 G87 1855 Original publication: New York, 1854 Reprints: New York, 1856; New York, 1859; New York, 1864; New York, 1866; New York, 1867; New York, 1868 (all except 1866 held by the library).

1856 Goodrich, Frank B. The Court of Napoleon: Or, Society Under the First

Empire. With Portraits of its Beauties, Wits, and Heroines. New York: Derby and Jackson; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby and Co., 1857. Accession/call no. 283229

Original publication: New York, 1856 Reprints: New York, 1858; Philadelphia, 1863; Philadelphia, 1864; Philadelphia, 1867; Philadelphia, 1871; Philadelphia, 1875; Philadelphia, 1880.

1857[?]. Remarkable Women of Different Nations andAges. First Series. Boston: John P.

Jewett and Company, 1858. Accession/call no. CT3202 R4 Notes: Beatrice Cenci, the Parricide; Charlotte Corday, the Assassin; Joanna Southcott, The English Prophetess; Jemimah Wilkinson, the American

Prophetess; Madame Ursinus, The Poisoner; Madame Gottfried, the Poisoner; Mlle. Clairon, the Queen of the French Stage; Harriet Mellon, the Ennobled Actress; Mlle. Lenormand, the Fortune Teller; Angelica Kauffman, the Artist; Mary Baker, the Princess of Javasu; Pope Joan, the Woman Pontiff; Joan of Arc, the Woman Warrior.

Adams, Henry Gardiner. A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography ... London:

Groombridge and Sons, 1857. Accession/call no. CT3202 A3 1857 Reprints: Glasgow, 1865; Glasgow, 1866; London, 1866; London, 1869.

Goodrich, Frank B. Women ofBeauty and Heroism from Semiramis to Eugenie. A Portrait Gallery ofFemale Loveliness, Achievement, and Influence. New York:

Derby and Jackson, 1859. Accession/call no. 310991

Original publication: New York, 1858 Reprints: as World-Famous Women. A Portrait Gallery, .. . Philadelphia, 1871; as World-Famous Women: Being Phototypes ofFemale Heroism from the Earliest

Ages to the Present Time, Philadelphia, 1879; Philadelphia, 1880; Philadelphia, 1881; with subtitle ... Types of Female Heroism, Beauty, and Influence, from the

EarliestAges to the Present Time, n.p., 1891. Notes: Semiramis; Penelope; Cornelia; Zenobia; Beatrice; Joan Darc [sic]; Isabella; Diana de Poitiers; Anne Boleyn; Mary, Queen of Scots; Pocahontas; Nell Gwynn; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu; Marie Antoinette; The Maid of

Saragossa; Anne Hasseltine Judson; Charlotte Bronte, Victoria; Eugenie.

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1859 Ellet, Elizabeth E Women Artists in AllAges and Countries. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1859. Accession/call no. N43 E5 Reprints: London, 1859; London, 1860.

Ellis, Mrs. [Sarah Stickney]. The Mothers of Great Men. London: Richard

Bentley, 1859. Accession/call no. CT3203 E5 Reprints: London, 1861; London, 1874; Edinburgh, 1883; Edinburgh, 1902. Notes: the mothers of St. Augustine; Alfred the Great; Henry VIII; Francis I;

Henry IV; John Wesley; Napoleon; Cowper; Lord Byron; Goethe and Richter; and assorted shorter sketches.

Wade, John. Women, Past and Present: Exhibiting their Social Vicissitudes;

Single and Matrimonial Relations; Rights, Privileges, and Wrongs. London: William Tegg, 1865. Accession/call no. HQ 121 W2

Original publication: London, 1859 One chapter, "Harlotry and Concubinage," was published separately in 1859 (also held by the library).

1860 Wharton, Grace and Philip [pseud. Katherine and John Cockburn Thomson]. The Queens of Society. 2 vols. London: James Hogg, 1860. Accession/call no. 120293

Reprints: New York, 1861 (held by the library); London and New York, 1867; London, 1870; London and New York, 1872; London, 1876; London and New York, 1883; New York, 1890; Philadelphia, 1890 (held by the library); London, 1890 (held by the library); Philadelphia, 1910. Notes: Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough; Madame Roland; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu; Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire; Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L.E.L.); Madame de Sevigne; Sydney [Owenson], Lady Morgan; Jane, Duchess of Gordon; Madame Recamier; Lady Hervey; Madame de Stael; Mrs. Thrale-Piozzi; Lady Caroline Lamb; Anne Seymour Damer; La

Marquise du Deffand; Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu; Mary Countess of Pembroke; La Marquise de Maintenon.

1861 Owen, Mrs. Octavius Freire [Emily]. The Heroines ofDomestic Life. London:

Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1861. Accession/call no. CT3202 09 When rebound, pp. 273-88 were inserted upside-down and backwards.

Reprint: London, 1862 Notes: Ruth; Antigone; Panthea; Eponina; Gertrude von der Wart; Margaret Roper; Anne Askew; Jeanne d'Albret; Pocahontas; Lucy Hutchinson; Lady Rachel Russell; Grizel Cochrane; Winifred, Countess of Nithsdale; Helen

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Walker; Flora Macdonald; Louise Schepler; Emile de Lavalette; Elizabeth Fry; Prasca Loupouloff; Sarah Martin; Grace Darling; Florence Nightingale.

Williams, Jane. The Literary Women ofEngland. Including a Biographical Epitome ofall the Most Eminent to the Year 1700; and Sketches of the Poetesses to the Year 185o; with Extracts from Their Work, and Critical Remarks. London: Saunders, Otley, and Co., 1861. Accession/call no. PR 11 W5

1862 Kavanagh, Julia. French Women ofLetters: Biographical Sketches. 2 vols. London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 1862. Accession/call no. PQ 149 K2 Sessler copy Reprint: Leipzig, 1862 Notes: Mademoiselle de Gournay; Mademoiselle de Scudery; Madame de la

Fayette; Madame De Tencin; Madame Riccoboni; Madame de Genlis; Madame de Charriere; Madame de Kriidener; Madame Cotin; Madame de Stael.

Kavanagh, Julia. English Women ofLetters: Biographical Sketches. 2 vols. London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 1863. Accession/call no. PRl 15 K3 Sessler copy Original publication: Leipzig, 1862 Notes: Aphra Behn; Miss [Sarah] Fielding; Madame D'Arblay [Fanny Burney]; Mrs. Charlotte Smith; Mrs. Radcliffe; Mrs. Inchbald; Miss

Edgeworth; Mrs. Opie; Lady Morgan.

1863 Clayton, Ellen Creathorne. Queens of Song: Being Memoirs ofSome of the Most Celebrated Female Vocalists Who Have Performed on the Lyric Stage from the Earliest Days of Opera to the Present Time. To Which is Added a

Chronological List of all the Operas that have been Performed in Europe. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1865. Accession/call no. ML400 C55 Original publication: 2 vols., London, 1863 Reprints: New York, 1864; New York, 1868; New York, 1869; Freeport, N.Y, 1972.

Ellet, Elizabeth E Queens ofAmerican Society. New York: Charles Scribner and Company, 1867. Accession/call no. 71814 Brock collection

Original publication: Philadelphia, 1863 Reprints: New York, 1868; New York, 1870; Philadelphia, 1873.

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1864 Brightwell, Miss [Cecilia]. Above Rubies; or Memorials of Christian Gentlewomen. London, Edinburgh, and New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1887. Accession/call no. CT3230 B7

Original publication: London, 1864 Reprints: London, 1865; London and New York, 1866; London and New York, 1869; London and New York, 1870; London and New York, 1878; London and New York, 1887; London and New York, 1880. Edited by Atticus G. Haywood, with additions from W. H. Davenport Adams, The Sunshine ofDomestic Life, as 'Above Rubies"; or, Memorials of Christian Gentlewomen, Nashville, Tenn., 1874, 1875. Notes: Anne, Countess of Balcarres, and her daughter Lady Anne Lindsay; Madame Guizot and her daughter-in-law, Caroline Perthes; Mrs. Grant of

Laggan; Madame Necker; Lady Fanshawe; Winifred Herbert (Countess of

Nithisdale); Louisa (Queen of Prussia); Mrs. Susannah Wesley; Katharine von Bora (Luther's wife); Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson.

1866 Moore, Frank. Women of the War; Their Heroism and Self-Sacrifice. Hartford, Conn.: S. S. Scranton and Co.; Chicago: R. C. Treat, etc., 1866. Accession/call no. E628 M59 Reprints: Hartford and Chicago, 1867 (also held by library in the Nicholson

collection); Hartford and Chicago, 1868; Hartford, 1869; Costa Mesa, Calif., 1980; revised by Carolyn Thomas as Prose and Poetry: Frank Moores Women of the War, Valley Center, Calif., 1996; Alexander, N.C., 1997.

Stevens, Abel. The Women ofMethodism: Its Three Foundresses, Susanna Wesley the Countess ofHuntingdon, and Barbara Heck; With Sketches of their Female Associates And Successors in the Early History of the Denomination. New York: Carlton and Porter, 1866. Accession/call no. BX8493 S8

Reprints: London, 1876; New York, 1869; New York, 1989.

1867 Brockett, L. P, and Vaughan, Mrs. Mary C. Woman's Work in the Civil War: A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience. Intro. Henry Bellows, D.D.

Philadelphia et al.: Zeigler, McCurdy and Co.; Boston: R. H. Curran, 1867. Accession/call no. E628 B85 Additional copy, missing a chapter listing for "Mrs. Eliza Potter," is also held

by the library. Alternative title: Woman at War: A Record of their Patriotic Contributions, Heroism, Toils, and Sacrifice During the Civil War

Reprints: Philadelphia, 1868 (also held by the library); as Heroines ofthe Rebellion, Philadelphia, 1888; vols., Bowie, Md., 1993; Stamford, Conn., and Woodbury, N.Y., 1993.

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1868 Parton, James, et al. Eminent Women of the Age; Being Narratives of the Lives and Deeds of the Most Prominent Women of the Present Generation. Hartford, Conn.: Sim, Betts and Company, 1868. Accession/call no. 14882 A.L.S. of Mary A. Livermore and Frances Wright pasted in.

Reprints: Hartford, 1869; Hartford, 1871; Chicago, 1872; Hartford, 1880.

Strickland, Agnes. Lives of the Tudor Princesses, Including Lady Jane Gray and Her Sisters. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1868. Accession/call no. 133441 Sessler copy Reprints: as Lives of the Tudor and Stuart Princesses, London, 1888; London, 1902.

Notes: Princess Mary Tudor; Lady Jane Gray; Lady Katherine Gray; Lady Mary Gray; Lady Eleanor Brandon; Lady Margaret Clifford; Lady Arabella Stuart.

1869 Ellet, Elizabeth E The Court Circles of the Republic... Hartford, Conn.: Hartford Publishing Co. (et al.), 1869. Accession/call no. 320262

Library has a second copy in the Lewisson collection.

Reprints: Philadelphia, 1870; Hartford, 1870; Philadelphia, 1872 (all held by the library); New York, 1975.

Holloway, Laura Carter [later Langford]. The Ladies of the White House. New York, Cincinnati, and Chicago: United States Publishing Co., et al., 1870. Accession/call no. 68304 Brock collection

Original publication: New York, 1869

Reprints: New York, 1871; New York, 1872; with the subtitle: ... Being a

Complete History of the Social and Domestic Lives of the Presidentsfrom Washington to Hayes, 1789-1880, Philadelphia, 1880 (held by the library); with the subtitle altered to ... to the Present Time-1789-1881, Cincinnati, 1881 (held by the library); Philadelphia, 1881 (the library holds two copies); with the subtitle: . . . Being a Complete History of the Social and Domestic Lives of the Presidents From Washington to the Present, Philadelphia, 1882; Philadelphia, 1883; Philadelphia, 1884; and Philadelphia, 1885 (held by the library); with the subtitle: ...firom Washington to Cleveland-1789-1886, New York, 1886 (held

by the library in the Lewisson collection); New York, 1976.

Steinman, G. Steinman, Esq., E S. A. Althorp Memoirs, or Biographical Notices ofLady Denham, the Countess of Shrewsbury, the Countess ofFalmouth, Mrs. Jenyns, the Duchess of yrconnel, and Lucy Walter, Six Ladies Whose Portraits are to be Found in the Picture Gallery of His Excellency Earl Spencer, KG., KP., Lord Lieutenant-General and General Governor ofIreland. Printed for Private Circulation, 1869.





Accession/call no. DA447 A3S8 Addenda to Althorp Memoirs, Including Corrections (Printed for Private Circulation, 1880) is pasted onto the back cover.

Wright, Thomas. Womankind in Western Europefrom the Earliest Times to The Seventeenth Century. London: Groombridge and Sons, 1869. Accession/call no. 22585 Anderson cat. Feb. 1921, no. 1559, item no. 790

Reprints: Boston, 1978; Delmar, N.Y., 1987.

1870 Gage, Matilda Joslyn. Woman as Inventor ... Issued Under the Auspices of the New York State Woman Suffiage Association. Fayetteville, N.Y.: E A. Darling, Steam Book and Job Printer, 1870. Accession/call no. 90189

Reprint: New York, 188-.

Mossman, Samuel. Gems of Womanhood; Or, Sketches ofDistinguished Women in Various Ages and Nations. Edinburgh and London: Gall and Inglis, 1870. Accession/call no. CT3202 M6 Notes: Joan of Arc; Octavia; Zenobia; Boadicea; Flora Macdonald; Elizabeth

Fry; Grace Darling; African women; Letitia Elizabeth Landon; Mrs. Anne Damer, Tarquinia Molza; Madame De Stael; Jane, Duchess of Gordon; Duchess of Duras; Mrs. Elizabeth Montague; Madame Recamier; Mary, Countess of Pembroke; Mrs. Hemans; Madame de Sevigne; Lady Rachel Russell; Elizabeth of Siberia; Anne Askew; Madame Guyon.

1872 Jex-Blake, Sophia. Medical Women: A Thesis and a History. 2d ed. Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier; London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1886. Accession/call no. R 692 J49 Original publication: Edinburgh and London, 1872 Reprint: New York, 1970

Menzies, Sutherland [Elizabeth Stone]. Political Women. 2 vols. London:

Henry S. King and Co., 1873. Accession/call no. D1o9 S7 Original publication: London, 1872 Reprints: with the subtitle Being Biographical Notices ofAnne de Bourbon, the Duchess de Longueville, the Duchess de Chevreuse, Mlle de Montpensier, Mme de Montbazon, the Duchess ofPortsmouth, Sarah Jennings, Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, London, 1875; London, 1893; New York, 1970.

Strickland, Agnes. Lives of the Last Four Princesses of the Royal House of Stuart. London: Bell and Daldy, 1872. Accession/call no. 133442 Sessler copy Reprint: New York, 1872

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1873 Webster, the Rev. Thos., D.D. Woman Mans Equal. Intro. by Bishop Simpson. Cincinnati: Hitchcock and Walden; New York: Nelson and

Phillips, 1873. Accession/call no. HQ1426 W4 Notes: General historical analysis of women in antiquity, as well as short treatments of Dido; Cleopatra; Lucretia; Zenobia; Hypatia; the Countess of Montfort; Anna [sic] Askew; Esther Inglis; Lady Pakington; Mrs. Mary Washington; Mrs. Wesley; Mrs. Fletcher; Miss Crosby; Ann Hasseltine; Sarah H. R. Hudson; and miscellaneous others.

1875 Howard, Charles Wallace. The Women of the Late War. An Address... Charleston, S.C.: A. J. Burke, 1875. Accession/call no. 1875 (temporary) Brock collection

1876 Clayton, Ellen Creathorne. English Female Artists. 2 vols. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1876. Accession/call no. N6796.C52 1876

Fowler, William Worthington. Woman on the American Frontier. Hartford: S. S. Scranton and Co., 1877. Accession/call no. E176.8 F7

Original publication: Hartford, 1876 Reprints: almost annually in Hartford between 1877 and 1886 (1880 and 1881 also held by the library); New York, 1970; Ann Arbor, Mich., 1971; Detroit, 1974; Williamstown, Mass., 1976; Costa Mesa, Calif., 1992; Bowie, Md., 1994; Stamford, Conn., 1995.

Murch, Jerom. Mrs. Barbauld and Her Contemporaries: Sketches of Some Eminent Literary and Scientific Englishwomen. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1877. Accession/call no. PRi 1 M8 Author's presentation copy Based on a series of papers originally delivered at the Bath Institution.

Original publication: as Mrs. Barbauld and Her Contemporaries: A Paper Read

Before the Bath Literary and PhilosophiccalAssociation, October 2oth 1876, Bath, 1876 Reprint: London, 1887 Notes: Miss Hannah More; Miss Jane Austen; Miss Edgeworth; Mrs. Marcet; Miss Mitford; Miss Jane Porter; Madame D'Arblay [Fanny Burney]; Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu; Miss Berry; Miss Joanna Baillie; Mrs. Barbauld; Mrs. Trimmer; Mrs. Piozzi; the Miss Lees; Mrs. Radcliffe; Lady Morgan; Mrs. Somerville; Miss Caroline Herschel.

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1877 Balfour, Clara L. Women Worth Emulating. New York: American Tract

Society, n.d. Accession/call no. 19297 Also published: London, 1877 Notes: Mrs. Mary Somerville; Charlotte Elliott; Caroline Herschel; Elizabeth Smith; Amelia Opie; Sarah Martin and the Last Duchess of Gordon; Jane and Ann Taylor (Mrs. Gilbert).

Hanaford, Phebe A. Women of the Century. Boston: B. Russell, et. al., 1877. Accession/call no. E176.8 H3. The donor, Alice Park, has pasted in a note detailing her relationship to both Hanaford and some of the women profiled. Reprints: as Daughters ofAmerica; or, Women of the Century, Boston, 1882;

Augusta, Me., 1883 (also held by the library); Boston, 1883; Cincinnati, 1883; Des Moines, Iowa, 1884; Augusta, Me., 1889; Plainview, N.Y., 1974.

Tullidge, Edward W. The Women ofMormondom. New York: Tullidge and

Crandall, 1877. Accession/call no. 249774 Reprints: Salt Lake City, 1957; Salt Lake City, 1965; Salt Lake City, 1973; Salt Lake City, 1975.

1879 Adams, W. H. Davenport. Womans Work and Worth in Girlhood, Maidenhood, and Wifehood... London: John Hogg, 1880. Accession/call no. 298530 Original publication: London, 1879 Reprints: New York, 1880; abridged as Exemplary Women: A Record of Feminine Virtues andAchievements, London, 1882; full text reprinted Chicago, 1884; Chicago, 19-.

Ferris, George T. Great Singers: Faustina Bordoni to Henrietta Sontag. First Series. New ed., rev. and illus. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1900. Accession/call no. ML400 F39 Original publication: New York, 1879 Reprints: with the second series, New York, 1880-81; New York, 1882;

reprinted almost annually with the second series in New York between 1884 and 1899; New York, 1902; New York, 1907; Freeport, N.Y., 1972. Notes: Faustina Bordoni; Catarina Gabrielli; Sophie Arnould; Elizabeth

Billington and her Contemporaries; Angelica Catalani; Giuditta Pasta; Henrietta Sontag.

1880 Darton, J[ohn] M[aw]. The Heroism of Christian Women of Our Own Time. New York: Robert Carter and Brothers, [1881?]. Accession/call no. DA 531.1 D3 Original publication: London, 1880 (Or later 187os?)

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Reprint: New York, 1893 Notes: H. R. H. Princess Louise; Agnes Elizabeth Jones; Lady Hope; Mary Carpenter; Mrs. Lucas; Mrs. Daniell; Miss Weston; Mrs. Ranyard; Mrs. Reed; Catherine Tait; Frances Ridley Havergal; Sister Dora; Miss Fisher; Mrs. Wakefield; Christine R. Alsop; Anne Mackenzie; Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna.

Pitman, Mrs. Emma Raymond. Heroines of the Mission Field. Biographical Sketches ofFemale Missionaries Who Have Labored in Various Lands Among the Heathen. New York: Anson D. E Randolph and Company, 1880. Accession/call no. BV3703 P5 Reprints: London, 1880 as The Women of All LandsforJesus ... Notes: Twenty-eight sketches, including Miss Fidelia Fiske; Mrs. Emily C.

Judson; Mrs. Ann H. Judson; and Mrs. Harriet Newell.

Upton, George P. Woman in Music. An Essay. Boston: James R. Osgood and

Company, 1880. Accession/call no. ML82 U71

Reprints: Chicago, 1886; Chicago, 1889; Chicago, 1890; Chicago, 1892;

Chicago, 1895; Chicago, 1899; London and Chicago, 1909.

1881 Ferris, George T. Great Singers: Malibran to Materna. Second Series. New ed., rev. and illus. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1900. Accession/call no. ML4oo F3 Original publication: New York, 1881

Reprints: see Ferris 1879. Notes: Maria Felicia Malibran; Wilhelmina Schroder-Devrient; Giulia Grisi; Pauline Viardot; Fanny Persiani; Marietta Alboni; Jenny Lind; Sophie Cruvelli; Theresa Titens; Adelina Patti/Christine Nilsson/Amalia Materna.

1883 Adams, W. H. Davenport. Childlife and Girlhood of Remarkable Women: A Series of Chaptersfrom Female Biography. 7th ed. London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co., Lim., n.d. Accession/call no. CT32oz A35 Original publication date: London, 1883 Reprints: London, 1885; London, 1887; London, 189-; New York, 1895. Notes: approximately twenty-eight women are profiled, among them Harriet Martineau; Fanny Burney; Charlotte Bronte; Mrs. Somerville; Lady Jane Gray; Mary Wortley Montagu; Jeanne d'Arc; Mrs. Fry; and Mme. Roland.

Holloway, Laura C. [later Langford]. The Mothers of Great Men and Women, and Some Wives of Great Men. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, Publishers, 1883. Accession/call no. 408085 Reprints: Philadelphia, 1887; Baltimore, 1889; Baltimore, 1891; Baltimore, 1892.

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Notes: over thirty different figures as well as additional short sketches, includ-

ing Letitia Bonaparte; St. Monica; Cornelia; Madame Necker; Lady Russell; Marie Antoinette; and Abigail Adams.

Parton, James. Noted Women ofEurope andAmerica. Authors, Artists,

Reformers, and Heroines. Queens, Princesses, and Women of Society. Women Eccentric and Peculiar, From the Most Recent andAuthentic Sources. Hartford, Conn.: Phoenix Publishing Co., 1883. Accession/call no. CT3234 P33 Reprints: Springfield, Mass., 1884 under this title; and Philadelphia, 1885; Philadelphia, 1886; Philadelphia, 1887; Philadelphia, 1888; and New York, 1890 as Daughters of Genius: A Series of Sketches of. .. (also held by the

library) with slightly different contents; and as Eminent Women: A Series of Sketches of Women Who Have Won Distinction By their Genius and Achievements as Authors, Artists, Actors, Rulers, or Within the Precinct ofHome (fundamentally identical to Daughters of Genius), New York, 1890. Notes: includes the Brontes; Harriet Beecher Stowe; George Eliot; Miss

Alcott; Madame de Stael; Caroline Herschel; Josephine; Maria Theresa; Joan of Arc; Harriet Martineau; and George Sand. Noted Women also includes

Lydia Maria Child; Grace Darling; and Mrs. Somerville. Daughters of Genius also includes Queen Victoria and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Our Famous Women. Comprising the Lives and Deeds ofAmerican Women Who Have Distinguished Themselves in Literature, Science, Art, Music, and the Drama, or are Famous as Heroines, Patriots, Orators, Educators, Physicians, Philanthropists, etc. With Numerous Anecdotes, Incidents, and Personal

Experiences... Hartford, Conn.: A. D. Worthington and Co., Publishers, 1884. Accession/call no. E176.8 078

Original publication: with subtitle An Authorized Record of the Lives and Deeds ofDistinguishedAmerican Women of Our Times; An Entirely New Work, Full of Romantic Story, Lively Humor, Thrilling Experiences, Tender Pathos, and Brilliant Wit, . . . Hartford, 1883. Reprints: Boston, 1885; Hartford, 1886; Kansas City, Mo., 1887; with subtitle ... Givingfor the First Time the Life History of Women Who Have Won Their

Wayfrom Poverty and Obscurity to Fame and Glory, Hartford, 1888 (also held

by the library); Chicago, 19-.

Twenty authors: Harriet Beecher Stowe; Rose Terry Cooke; Harriet Prescott

Spofford; Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney; Mary A. Livermore; Lucia Gilbert Runkle; Marion Harland; Mary Clemmer; Kate Sanborn; Louise Chandler Moulton; Lucy Larcom; Julia Ward Howe; Susan

Coolidge; Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Laura Curtis Bullard; Lilian Whiting; Elizabeth T. Spring; Elizabeth Bryant Johnson; and Maud Howe. Notes: Thirty women are profiled, including authors Cooke, Clemmer,

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Howe, Livermore, Larcom, Moulton, Spofford, Phelps, Stowe, and Whitney; others included are Louisa May Alcott; Susan B. Anthony; Catherine E. Beecher; Clara Barton; Mary Louise Booth; the Doctors Blackwell; Frances

Hodgson Burnett; Charlotte Cushman; Lydia Maria Child; Mary Mapes Dodge; Margaret Fuller; Abby Hopper Gibbons; Clara Louise Kellogg; Maria Mitchell; Lucretia Mott; Elizabeth Prentiss; Mary Virginia Terhune; Anne

Whitney; and Frances E. Willard.

1884 Jove y Hevia, Placido de, Vizcade de Campo-Grande, Hon Sr. Woman: Her Moral and Political Influence. An Address ... Trans. Mrs. Thomas Nickerson. Boston: The New England Publishing Co., 1884. Accession/call no. 300656

1885 "Our Women in the War. " The Lives They Lived: The Deaths They Died. From the Weekly News and Courier, Charleston, S.C. Charleston, S.C.: The News and Courier Book Presses, 1885. Accession/call no. E6z8 N48 Reprint: Knoxville, Tenn., 1998

1886 [Barnes, Reginald Henry and Brown, Charles Edward]. Queens ofLiterature of the Victorian Era. London: Walter Scott, 1886. Accession/call no. PR115 B5 Notes: Mary Somerville; Harriet Martineau; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Charlotte Bronte; George Eliot; Felicia Hemans.

1887 Cone, Helen Gray. Pen-Portraits of Literary Women, By Themselves and Others. Ed. Helen Gray Cone and Jeannette L. Gilder, with biographical sketches by the former. 2 vols. New York: Cassell and Company, Limited, [1887]. Accession/call no. PRi 9 C7

Reprint: Boston, 1900 Notes: Hannah More; Frances Burney; Mary Wollstonecraft; Mary Shelley; Mary Lamb; Maria Edgeworth; Jane Austen; Joanna Baillie; Mary Russell Mitford; Harriet Martineau; George Sand; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Margaret Fuller; Charlotte Bronte; Emily Bronte; George Eliot.

Dawson, Francis Warrington. Our Women in the War. An Address by Capt. Francis W. Dawson ... Charleston, S.C.: Walker, Evans, and Cogswell Company, Printers, 1887. Accession/call no. 1887 (temporary) Nicholson collection

Sherwood, Mrs. M. E. W. Royal Girls and Royal Courts. Boston: D Lothrop Company, 1887. Accession/call no. D352.3 S5 Reprint: Boston, 1888

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1888. Bolton, Sarah [Knowles]. Successful Women ... With Portraits. Boston: D. Lothrop Company, 1888. Accession/call no. CT326o B7 Includes an advertising pamphlet. Reprint: Plainview, N.Y., 1974 Notes: Juliet Corson; Mary Louise Booth; Frances E. Willard; Mrs. G. R. Alden ("Pansy"); Mary Virginia Terhune ("Marion Harland"); Margaret; Ella Grant Campbell; Rachel Littler Bodley; Candace Wheeler; Clara Barton; Alice E. Freeman.

Edwards, H. Sutherland. The Prima Donna: Her History and Surroundings from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century. 2 vols. London: Remington and Co. Publishers, 1888. Accession/call no. ML400 E28

Reprint: New York, 1978 Notes: Anastasia Robinson/Lavinia Fenton; Cuzzoni/Faustina; Mingotti/ Gabrielli; Sophie Arnould; Mara; Catalani; Colbran-Rossini; Pasta, Sontag; Malibran; Grisi; Jenny Lind; Bosio; Titiens; Patti; Pauline Lucca; Christine Nilsson; Albani; Mdlle. Schneider; and various shorter sketches.

Nevin, Adelaide Mellier. The Social Mirror: A Character Sketch of the Women

ofPittsburg and Vicinity during the First Century of the Countys Existence.

Society of To-Day. Pittsburg, Pa.: T. W. Nevin, Publisher, 1888. Accession/call no. 282200

1889 Fawcett, Mrs. Henry [Millicent Garrett]. Some Eminent Women of Our Time: Short Biographical Sketches. London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1889. Accession/call no. CT3234 F3 Reprinted from The Mother's Magazine. Reprints: London and New York, 1894. Notes: Elizabeth Fry; Mary Carpenter; Caroline Herschel; Sarah Martin; Mary Somerville; Queen Victoria; Harriet Martineau; Florence Nightingale; Mary Lamb; Agnes Elizabeth Jones; Charlotte and Emily Bronte; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Lady Sale and Her Fellow-Hostages in Afghanistan; Elizabeth Gilbert; Jane Austen; Maria Edgeworth; Queen Louise of Prussia; Dorothy Wordsworth; Sister Dora; Mrs. Barbauld; Joanna Baillie; Hannah More; The American Abolitionists-Prudence Crandall and Lucretia Mott.

Gordon, Lydia L. From Lady Washington to Mrs. Cleveland. Boston: Lee and

Shepard Publishers; New York: C. T. Dillingham, 1889. Accession/call no. E176.1 G66 Lewisson collection

Reprint: Freeport, N.Y., 1972

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1891 Mason, Amelia Gere. The Women of the French Salons. New York: The

Century Co., 1891. Accession/call no. DC36.2 M3 Halsey copy

1892 Bolton, Sarah [Knowles]. Famous Types of Womanhood. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, Publishers, 1892. Accession/call no. CT3202.B62 Includes an author's autograph. Notes: Queen Louise of Prussia; Madame Recamier; Susanna Wesley; Harriet Martineau; Jenny Lind; Dorothy Lynde Dix; Ann, Sarah, and Emily Judson; Amelia Blandford Edwards.

Imbert de Saint-Amand, Arthur Leon (Baron). The Women of the Court of Louis XV... . With Extra Illustrations. 2 parts. Boston: The Club of Odd Volumes, 1892. Accession/call no. 131326

Library has a second copy. No. 82 of 150 produced.

1893 Gage, Matilda Joslyn. Woman, Church and State: A HistoricalAccount of the Status of Woman Through the Christian Ages: With Reminscences of the Matriarchate. 2nd ed. New York: The Truth Seeker Company, 1893. Accession/call no. HQ1121 G3

Expanded version of a speech first delivered in 1878. Original publication: New York, 1893

Reprints: New York, 1900; New York, 1909; New York, 1972; Salem, N.H.,

1985; Salem, N.H., 1992; Delhi, 1997.

Ingham, Mrs. W. A. Women of Cleveland and Their Work, Philanthropic, Educational, Literary, Medical andArtistic. A History, in which more than One Thousand People of Clevelands Past and Present are Mentioned as Participants. Intro. Hon. C. C. Baldwin and commentary by Mrs. Sarah K. Bolton. Cleveland, Ohio: W. A. Ingham, 1893. Accession/call no. F499 C6 .16

Newspaper "puff" of Mrs. Bolton inserted between pp. 164 and 165.

Ostrogorski, M. The Rights of Women: A Comparative Study in History and

Legislation. London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co.; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893. Accession/call no. JF851 082.

Reprints: London, 1908; Philadelphia, 1980.

Scruggs, Lawson Andrew. Women of Distinction: Remarkable in Words and Invincible in Character. Intro. Mrs. Josephine Turpin Washington. Raleigh: L. A. Scruggs, 1893.

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Accession/call no. E185.96 S3 Notes: nearly ninety notable African-American women.

Willard, Frances E., and Livermore, Mary, eds. A Woman of the Century: Fourteen-Hundred-Seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of LeadingAmerican Women in All Walks ofLife. Buffalo, Chicago, and New York: Charles Wells Moulton, 1893. Accession/call no. 482860 Reprints: as American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies with Over 1,400 Portraits; A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of the Lives andAchievements of American Women During the Nineteenth Century, New York and Chicago, 1897 (also held by the library); Detroit, 1967; Detroit, 1973; New York, 1975.

1894 Stopes, Charlotte Carmichael. British Freewomen: Their Historical Privilege. London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 1894. Accession/call no. HQ1597 S8

Reprints: London, 1894; London, 1907; London and New York, 1909.

1895 Bolton, Sarah [Knowles]. Famous Leaders Among Women. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell and Company, 1895. Accession/call no. CT3202 B6

Reprint: Freeport, N.Y., 1972 Notes: Madame de Maintenon; Catherine II of Russia; Madame Le Brun;

Dolly Madison; Catherine Booth; Lucy Stone; Lady Henry Somerset; Julia Ward Howe; Queen Victoria.

Earle, Alice Morse. Colonial Dames and Good Wives. Boston and New York:

Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895. Accession/call no. E162 E15 Reprints: Boston and New York, 1896; Boston and New York, 1904; Boston and New York, 1924; New York, 1962; Bowie, Md., 1988.

Holland, Mary A. Gardner, comp. Our Army Nurses: Interesting Sketches and

Photographs Of Over One Hundred of the Noble Women Who Served in

Hospitals and On Battle Fields During Our Late Civil War, 1861-1865. Boston: Press of Lounsbery, Nichols and Worth, 1895. Accession/call no. 96976 Nicholson collection

Reprints: Boston, 1897 (held by the library); as OurArmy Nurses: Storiesfrom Women in the Civil War, Roseville, Minn., 1998.

Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth. Colonial Days and Dames. Philadelphia: J. B.

Lippincott Co., 1895. Accession/call no. 91731

Halsey copy

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Originally published 1894? Reprints: Philadelphia, 1898; Philadelphia, 1900; Philadelphia, 1908; New

York, 1971.

1896 Brooks, Elizabeth. Prominent Women of Texas. Akron, Ohio: The Werner

Company, 1896. Accession/call no. F385 B86 Browder Texas collection

Eckenstein, Lina. Woman Under Monasticism. Chapters on Saint-Lore and Convent Life Between A.D. 5oo andA.D. 00oo. Cambridge: at the University Press, 1896. Accession/call no. BX2440 E3 Reprint: New York, 1963

Hill, Georgiana. Women in English Life: From Mediaeval to Modern Times. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1896. Accession/call no. HQ1593 H65

1897 Women Novelists of Queen Victorias Reign: A Book ofAppreciations. London: Hurst and Blackett, Limited, 1897. Accession/call no. PRi 15 W6

Reprints: the chapter on Dinah Mulock appeared separately as 'The Author of John Halifax, Gentleman' A Memoir, London, 1898. Authors: Mrs. Oliphant; Mrs. Lynn Linton; Mrs. Alexander; Mrs. Macquoid; Mrs. Parr; Mrs. Marshall; Charlotte M. Yonge; Adeline Sergeant; Edna Lyall. Notes: The Sisters Bronte; George Eliot; Mrs. Gaskell; Mrs. Crowe/Mrs. Archer Clive/Mrs. Henry Wood; Lady Georgiana Fullerton/Mrs. Stretton/ Anne Manning; Dinah Mulock (Mrs. Craik); Julia Kavanagh/Amelia Blandford Edwards; Mrs. Norton; A.L.O.E./Mrs. Ewing. Reprints: Folcroft, Pa., 1969; Folcroft, Pa., 1974; Norwood, Pa., 1977.

Barton, George. Angels of the Battlefield. A History of the Labors of the Catholic Sisterhood In the Late Civil War. Philadelphia, Pa.: The Catholic Art

Publishing Company, 1897. Accession/call no. E621.B3 Nicholson collection

Reprint: Philadelphia, 1898 (also held by the library)

Dietrick, Ellen Battelle. Women in the Early Christian Ministry. A Reply to

Bishop Doane, and Others. Philadelphia: Alfred J. Ferris, 1897. Accession/call no. BV676 D5

Hubbard, Elbert. Little Journeys to the Homes ofFamous Women. New York and London: G. P Putnam's Sons, 1897. Accession/call no. CT3230 H8

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Reprints: East Aurora, N.Y., 1898; New York and London, 1899; New York, 1900; New York and London, 1901; New York and London, 1907; East Aurora, N.Y, 1908; East Aurora, N.Y., 1911; New York, 1916; New York, 1922; as Famous Women, New York, 1928. Notes: Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Madame Guyon; Harriet Martineau; Charlotte Bronte; Christina Rossetti; Rosa Bonheur; Madame de Stael; Elizabeth Fry; Mary Lamb; Jane Austen; Empress Josephine; Mary W

Shelley.

Vincent, Arthur, ed. Twelve Bad Women. Illustrations and Reviews ofFeminine Turpitude. Set Forth by Impartial Hands. New York: Brentano's, n.d. [1897?]. Accession/call no. 332448 Companion to Thomas Seccombe's Twelve Bad Men

Bookplate of Jack London

Reprints: Boston, 1897; London, 1897; London, 1911; Freeport, N.Y., 1973. Authors: Arthur Vincent; Abel H. Coppinger; Charles Andrews; Geoffrey Martin, Alfred Kalisch; Gilbert Burgess; Edgar Stubbs; W. G. Waters. Notes: Alice Perrers; Alice Arden; Moll Cutpurse; Frances Howard (Countess of Somerset); Barbara Villiers (Duchess of Cleveland); Jenny Diver; Teresa Constantia Phillips; Elizabeth Brownrigg; Elizabeth Canning; Elizabeth

Chudleigh (Duchess of Kingston); Mary Bateman; Mary Anne Clarke.

1900 De Maulde la Claviere, R. The Women of the Renaissance: A Study of Feminism. Trans. George Herbert Ely. London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co., Limited, 1900.

Accession/call no. HQ 1148 M3

Original French publication: 1898 Reprints: New York and London, 1901; London, 1905; London, 1911; Folcroft, Pa., 1978.

Done, Willard. Women of the Bible. A Series of Story and Character Sketches of the Great Women Who Have Aided in Making Bible History. Salt Lake City: no pub. [Willard Done?], 1900. Accession/call no. 381845

Peacock, Virginia Tatnall. Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century. 2d ed. Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1901. Accession/call no. CT3260 P4 Original publication: Philadelphia and London, 1900

Reprint: Freeport, N.Y., 1970 Notes: Marcia Burns; Theodosia Burr; Elizabeth Patterson; The Caton Sisters; Margaret O'Neill; Cora Livingston; Emily Marshall; Octavia Walton; Fanny Taylor; Jessie Benton; Sallie Ward; Harriet Lane; Adele Cutts; Emilie

Schaumburg; Kate Chase; Mattie Ould; Jennie Jerome; Nellie Hazeltine; Mary Victoria Leiter.

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Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth. Salons Colonial and Republican. Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1900. Accession/call no. E164 W5 Reprint: New York, 1971

1901 Brooks, Geraldine. Dames and Daughters of the Young Republic. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell and Co., 1901. Accession/call no. E176 B82

Companion volume to Dames and Daughters of Colonial Days (New York, 1900). Notes: Dorothea Payne Madison, Wife of James Madison; Sarah Jay, Wife of

John Jay; Theodosia Burr, Daughter of Aaron Burr; Elizabeth Patterson, Wife of Prince Jerome Bonaparte; Martha Jefferson, Daughter of Thomas

Jefferson; Rachel Jackson, Wife of Andrew Jackson; Dorothy Hancock, Wife of John Hancock; Emily Marshall, Familiarly Known as "The Beautiful

Emily Marshall."

Festing, Gabrielle. Unstoried in History: Portraits of Some Famous Women of the i6th, 17th, and i8th Centuries. London: James Nisbet and Co., Limited, 1901. Accession/call no. DA28.7 F4 Notes: Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland and Lady Bridget Manners; Brilliana

Conway, Lady Harley; Blanche Somerset, Lady Arundell of Wardour/Anne

Coventry, Lady Savile/Mary Hawtrey, Lady Bankes/Elizabeth Fitzgerald; The

Marquis and Marchioness of Worcester/The Lady Grace Manners, Lady Chatworth/The Lady Mary Bertie/The Hon. Bridget Noel; Thomas Pitt and

Jane Innes (Mrs. Pitt); Ellenor Frere/Ellenor Frere, Lady Fenn.

Harkins, E[dward] F[rancis] and Johnston, C[harles] H[aven] L[add]. Little

Pilgrimages Among the Women Who Have Written Famous Books. Boston: L. C.

Page and Company, 1902. Accession/call no. PS151 H32 Original publication: as Famous Authors (Women), Boston, 1901

Reprint: as Famous Authors (Women), Boston, 1906. Notes: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; Frances Hodgson Burnett; Sarah Orne Jewett; Mrs. Burton Harrison; Charles Egbert Craddock; Anna Katharine Green; Molly Elliott Seawell; Amelia E. Barr; Mary E. Wilkins; Octave Thanet; Marshall Saunders; Kate Douglas Wiggin; Gertrude Atherton,; John Oliver Hobbes; Lilian Bell; Ruth McEnery Stuart; Anna Farquhar; Pauline Bradford Mackie; Mary Johnston; Ella Anderson G. Glasgow; Bertha Runkle.

Mason, Amelia Gere. Woman in the Golden Ages. New York: The Century Co., 1901. Accession/call no. HQ 1121 M3

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Pepper, Mary Sifton. Maids and Matrons of New France. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1901. Accession/call no. F1030 P42 Reprint: Toronto, 1902

1902 Clark, W. E. Woman, Man and Poverty. Some Startling History. 2d ed. N. p.: W. E. Clark, 1902. Accession/call no. 447202

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[Berry, Mary]. A Comparative View of the Social Life ofEngland and France, From the Restoration of Charles the Second, to the French Revolution. London:

Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828. Accession/call no. DAllo B49

Brockett, L. P., M.D. Woman: Her Rights, Wrongs, Privileges, and

Responsibilities... Hartford: L. Stebbins, 1869. Accession/call no. HQ12o6. B7

Buckle, Henry Thomas. "The Influence of Women on the Progress of

Knowledge." In Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works ofHenry Thomas Buckle. Ed. Helen Taylor. Vol. 1 of 3 vols. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1872. Accession/call no. D7 B9

Bushnell, Horace. Womens Suffrage; the Reform Against Nature. New York: Charles Scribner and Company, 1869. Accession/call no. JK190o B96

Caplin, Madame R. A. With the assistance of Dr. John Mill. Women in the

Reign of Queen Victoria. London: Dean and Son, [1872]. Accession/call no. HQ1593 C3

Cobbold, Richard. The Character of Woman, In a Lecture, DeliveredApril 13th, 1848, for the Governesses Benevolent Institution. For the Author: E Cupiss [1848]. Accession/call no. 402948

Cooper, Anna Julia. "Womanhood a Vital Element in the Regeneration and

Progress of a Race." In A Voicefrom the South. By a Black Woman from the South. Xenia, Ohio: The Aldine Printing House, 1892. Accession/call no. E185.6 C77

Farnham, Eliza W. Woman and Her Era. 2 vols. New York: A. J. Davis, 1864. Accession/call no. HQ12o6 F23

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Female Rights Vindicated; or, the Equality of the Sexes Proved. South Shields:

James Jollie, 1833. Accession/call no. 220840

Gamble, Eliza Burt. The Evolution of Woman: An Inquiry into the Dogma of Her Inferiority to Man. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1894. Accession/call no. HQi127 G22

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. Woman and Her Wishes: An Essay. Inscribed to the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention. London: John Chapman, 1854. Accession/call no. 221292

Lord Kames, Henry Home. Sketches of the History ofMan. 2 vols. Edinburgh: W. Creech; London: W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, 1774. Accession/call no. 376861

Lecky, W. E. H. History of European Morals fiom Augustus to Charlemagne. 2 vols. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1869. Accession/call no. 19460

Mackinnon, William Alexander. History of Civilization and Public Opinion. 3rd ed. 2 vols. London: Henry Colburn, Publisher, 1849. Accession/call no. CB63 M2

McIntosh, Maria J. Woman in America: Her Work and Her Reward. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1850. Accession/call no. HQ1423 M2

Stuart, Gilbert, LL.D. A View of Society in Europe, in its Progressfrom Rudeness to Refinement: Or, Inqiuries Concerning the History ofLaw, Government, and Manners. Edinburgh: John Bell; London: J. Murray, 1778. Accession/call no. 264906

Wright, Thomas. A History ofDomestic Manners and Sentiments in England During the Middle Ages. London: Chapman and Hall, 1862.

Accession/call no. DA185 W75

Young, Samuel. Suggestions on the Best Mode ofPromoting Civilization and

Improvement; Or, the Influence of Women on the Social State ... Albany: Power Press of Hoffman and White, 1837. Accession/call no. 187544

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