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: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: W.H. Smith & Son
Published: 1850
Place of publication: London; And Simpkin, Marshall & Company
Language: eng
Subjects: Characters; Women; In literature
Notes: Each of the fifteen tales has a separate title-page but each volume is paged continuously.

The tales were published from 1850-1852.

Volumes 2 & 3 have ink inscription on front flyleaves.

Bound in blue cloth with gilt ornamentation and lettering.

Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
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.