Daughters of genius
Subtitle: a series of sketches of authors, artists, reformers, and heroines, queens, princesses, and women of society, women eccentric and peculiar, from the most recent and authentic sources
By: by James Parton
Series: Open Collections Program at Harvard University; Open Collections Program at Harvard University -- 00700
Publisher: Hubbard Bros.
Published: 1888
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 563
Subjects: Women; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Sally Bush : Abraham Lincoln's good stepmother; title: The Brontë sisters; title: Queen Victoria; title: Elizabeth Barrett Browning; title: Mrs. Stowe and Uncle Tom's cabin; title: Miss Alcott; title: George Eliot; title: Princess Louise; title: Fanny Mendelssohn; title: Angelica Kaufmann; title: Baroness Burdett-Coutts; title: Girlhood of Queen Elizabeth; title: The wife of Thomas Carlyle; title: The wife of Benedict Arnold; title: Adelaide Proctor; title: Lady Bloomfield; title: The mother of Victor Hugo; title: Laura Bridgman; title: The wife of George Washington in her workroom at Mount Vernon; title: Madame de Staël and Napoleon Bonaparte; title: The wife of Frederick the Great; title: The flight of Eugénie; title: Caroline Herschel; title: Charlotte Cushman; title: Maria Mitchell; title: Mrs. Trollope; title: Adelaide Phillips; title: Two queens, the daughters of James II of England; title: An evening with Rachel; title: Josephine and Bonaparte; title: Lady Morgan; title: Maria Theresa; title: Lady Franklin; title: Madame de Miramion; title: Peg O'Neal; title: Mrs. L.M. Monmouth, and how she lived on forty dollars a year; title: Trial of Jeanne Darc, commonly called Joan of Arc; title: Harriet Martineau; title: The wife of Lafayette; title: Betsy Patterson, otherwise Madame Jerome Bonaparte of Baltimore; title: Some ladies of the old school; title: Toru Dutt; title: George Sand.