Maids of honour
Subtitle: twelve descriptive sketches of single women who have distinguished themselves in philanthropy, nursing, poetry, travel, science, prose
By: by A.J. Green-Armytage.
Publisher: W. Blackwood
Published: 1906
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Format: Microform
Subjects: Single women -- Biography.; Women -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: Hannah More, Louisa May Alcott, and Christina Rossetti are three of the women whose lifetime accomplishments are described in an effort to refute the stereotype of the empty life of the "Old Maid."
Table of contents: title: Hannah More.; title: Mary Carpenter.; title: Caroline Lucretia Herschel.; title: Sister Dora [Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison].; title: Mary Kingsley.; title: Adelaide Anne Procter.; title: Marianne North.; title: Jean Ingelow.; title: Louisa Alcott.; title: Christina Rossetti.; title: Agnes Strickland.; title: Epilogue: Mary Lamb.; title: Appendix.