Heroes & heroines
By: by Eleanor & Herbert Farjeon ; with illustrations by Rosalind Thornycroft
Contributors: Thornycroft, Rosalind, illustrator; Farjeon, Herbert, 1887-1945, author
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: E.P. Dutton & Company Inc.
Published: 1933
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
Subjects: Heroes; Poetry; Juvenile poetry; Women heroes; Heroines in literature
Other titles: Heroes and heroines
Notes: Illustrated title page in colors.

Printed in Great Britain.

In verse.

Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
Table of contents: title: Alexander the Great, B.C. 356-323; title: Judas Maccabæus, 2nd century, B.C.; title: Julius Cæsar, B.C. 100-44; title: Boadicea, 1st century, A.D.; title: Charlemagne, 742-814; title: Alfred the Great, 849-901; title: Brian Boru, 926-1014; title: Lady Godiva, 1040-1080; title: Hereward the Wake, 11th century; title: The [El] Cid, 1040-1099; title: Saladin, 1137-1193; title: Robert Bruce, 1306-1329; title: Robin Hood, 14th century; title: William Tell, 14th century; title: Timour the Tartar, 1336-1405; title: Joan of Arc, 1412-1431; title: Christopher Columbus, 1446-1506; title: Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587; title: Sir Francis Drake, 1550-1596; title: Sir Philip Sidney, 1554-1586; title: Pocahontas, 1595-1617; title: Masaniello, 1623-1647; title: The Duke of Marlborough, 1650-1722; title: Rob Roy [MacGregor], 1671-1734; title: Alexander Selkirk, 1676-1723; title: Flora Macdonald, 1722-1790; title: George Washington, 1732-1799; title: [Lord] Nelson, 1758-1805; title: Napoleon [Bonaparte], 1769-1821; title: [Duke of] Wellington, 1769-1852; title: Lady Hester Stanhope, 1778-1839; title: Garibaldi, 1807-1882; title: David Livingstone, 1813-1873; title: Grace Darling, 1815-1842; title: Florence Nightingale, 1820-1910; title: Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917; title: Emmeline Pankhurst, 1858-1928; title: [Fridtjof] Nansen, 1861-1930.