The girlhood of Shakespeare's heroines
Subtitle: in a series of fifteen tales
By: by Mary Cowden Clarke, author of the concordance to Shakespeare
Series: Cambridge Library Collection
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781108001267; 9781108001274; 9781108001281
Subjects: In literature; Characters; Women
Notes: Reprint. Originally published : London : W. H. Smith & Son and Simpkin, Marshall & Co.,1850 (v.1) and 1851 (v.2-3)
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Portia; the heiress of Belmont. The Thane's daughter. Helena; the physician's orphan. Desdemona; the magnifico's child. Meg and Alice; the merry maids of Windsor.; title: v. 2. Isabella; the votaress. Katharina and Bianca; the shrew and the demure. Ophelia; the rose of Elsinore. Rosalind and Celia; the friends. Juliet; the white dove of Verona.; title: v. 3. Beatrice and Hero; the cousins. Olivia; the lady of Illyria. Hermione; the Russian princess. Viola; the twin. Imogen; the peerless.