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Gems Of Womanhood 1870 Gold Gilt Samuel Mossman Steel Engravings Antique Book.
Gifted as a special prize to Annie Burns
Sketches of distinguished women in various ages and nations.
Contents.
Heroines in times of peril.
Preface.
Joan of Arc, the maid of Orleans.
Octavia wife of Mark, Antony.
Zenobia, the Queen of Palmyra and the east.
Boadicea, Queen of the ancient, Briton’s.
Succourers in days of distress.
Flora, McDonald, the deliverer of Prince Charles Stuart.
Mrs Elizabeth Fry the reformer of female prison discipline.
Grace darling, who risk her life in saving the ship wrecked
African women who succoured the traveller Mungo Park.
Contributors to literature and art.
Letitia, Elizabeth Landon, poetess and prose writer
Mrs Anne Damer the English female sculptor.
Tarquinia Molza, who was made a citizen of Rome for her great learning.
Women’s influence in the political world.
Madame de stael eminent for her political writings and influence in France during the first empire and the restoration.
Jayne Duchess of Gordon eminent in English political circles. Time of George III
The Duchess of Duras of great political influence in France time of the restoration.
Women’s influence in society.
Mrs Elizabeth Montague imminent for her virtuous influence on English society.
Madame Recamier eminent for her beauty and power over Parisian society.
Mary countess of Pembroke, a leader of English society time of Queen Elizabeth.
Women’s influence in the domestic sphere
Mrs Hemans, the English Poetess of the domestic affections.
Madame de Sevione eminent in France for her letters on the domestic affections.
Women’s enduring love and filial piety
Lady, Rachel Russell, whose husband was beheaded on a false charge of treason in the reign of Charles II
Elizabeth of Siberia, daughter of an exile whose freedom she obtained from the czar of Russia.
Woman’s devotion to religion.
Anne Askew who suffered martyrdom for conscience sake in London, times of Henry VIII
Madame Guyon, a French religious, reformer and poetess persecuted and imprisoned time of Louis. XIV