Short stories from the lives of remarkable women
Subtitle: being narratives of fact to correct fiction, as related to her children
By: by a mother
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: James Miller
Published: 1861
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Copyright date: 1860
Subjects: Women; Biography; Juvenile fiction; Intelligence levels; Brothers and sisters; Fathers
Description: Charlie returns from his first year at boys school with the mistaken impression that "women do not have half the sense of men" and his father dispels that feeling using the examples of the lives of several famous women.
Notes: Illustrations engraved and signed by Jocelyn - Purcell.

Added title page, engraved.

Publisher's catalogue follows text.

Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
Table of contents: title: Lady Jane Grey; title: Lady Anna Halket; title: Lady Arundel; title: Jane de Mountfort; title: Madame Dacier; title: Queen Elizabeth; title: Liona; title: Mademoiselle Maille; title: Mary, Queen of William III; title: Martha Glar; title: Mademoiselle Delleglace; title: Madame Lefort; title: Madame de St. Balmont; title: Madame de St. Nectaire; title: Helena Lucretia Cornaro; title: Inez de la Cruz; title: Countess of Leicester; title: Joan of Arc; title: Madame de Mouchy; title: Mademoiselles de Bussy and de Brion.