| PAGE |
| Lucretia, | Bayle, | [9] |
| Sappho, | Mure, | [12] |
| Aspasia of Pericles, | Grote, | [16] |
| Xantippe, | Brucker, | [20] |
| Aspasia of Cyrus, | Bayle, | [22] |
| Cornelia, The Mother of the Gracchi, | Plutarch, | [25] |
| Portia, | Plutarch, | [28] |
| Octavia, | Bayle, | [31] |
| Cleopatra, | Merivale, | [34] |
| Mariamne, | Merivale, | [39] |
| Julia Domna, | Gibbon, | [41] |
| Zenobia, | Gibbon, | [43] |
| Valeria, | Gibbon, | [47] |
| Eudocia, | Gibbon, | [50] |
| Hypatia, | Brucker, | [54] |
| The Wife of Maximus, | Gibbon, | [57] |
| The Lady Rowena, | Verstegan, | [60] |
| Olga, | Gibbon, | [62] |
| The Lady Elfrida, | Hume, | [65] |
| The Countess of Tripoli, | Sismondi, | [68] |
| Jane, Countess of Mountfort, | Hume, | [70] |
| Laura de Sade, | Sismondi, | [74] |
| The Countess of Richmond, | Tytler, | [77] |
| Elizabeth Woodville, | Hume, | [79] |
| Joan of Arc, | De Quincey, | [81] |
| Jane Shore, | Hume, | [85] |
| Catharine of Arragon, | Tytler, | [88] |
| Anne Boleyn, | Tytler, | [91] |
| Margaret Roper, | Ballard, | [94] |
| Elizabeth Lucas, | Ballard, | [97] |
| Gaspara Stampa, | Hallam, | [99] |
| Anne Askew, | Hume, | [102] |
| Queen Elizabeth, | Hume—Macaulay, | [105] |
| Lady Jane Grey, | Hume, | [110] |
| Tarquinia Molza, | Hilarion de Coste, | [114] |
| Mary, Queen of Scots, | Robertson, | [117] |
| Gabrielle D'Estrees, | Davenport Adams, | [120] |
| Anne, Duchess of Pembroke, | Bishop Rainbow, | [125] |
| Esther Inglis, | Ballard, | [128] |
| Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle, | Ballard, | [131] |
| Lady Pakington, | Ballard, | [133] |
| Noor Mahal, | James Mill, | [136] |
| Pocahontas, | Dr Hugh Murray, | [139] |
| Lucy Hutchinson, | Jeffrey, | [143] |
| Lady Fanshawe, | Jeffrey, | [146] |
| Dorothy Osborne, | Macaulay, | [148] |
| Catherine Philips, | Ballard, | [151] |
| Madame de Maintenon, | St Simon, | [154] |
| Countess de Grammont, | Count A. Hamilton, | [157] |
| Mademoiselle de la Valliere, | Davenport Adams, | [161] |
| Madame Dacier, | Hallam, | [164] |
| Lady Masham, | Ballard, | [166] |
| Anne Killigrew, | Ballard, | [169] |
| Queen Anne, | Miss Strickland, | [172] |
| Esther Johnson, | Jeffrey, | [177] |
| Esther Vanhomrigh, | Sir Walter Scott, | [181] |
| Mary Astell, | Ballard, | [185] |
| Madame des Ursins, | St Simon, | [188] |
| Lady Grizel Jerviswoode, | Anderson, | [192] |
| Madame de Pontchartrain, | St Simon, | [196] |
| Elizabeth Halkett, | Conolly, | [198] |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, | Jeffrey, | [200] |
| Madame du Deffand, | Jeffrey, | [204] |
| Phœbe Bentley, | Cumberland, | [207] |
| Marquise du Chatelet, | Professor Craik, | [208] |
| Lady Huntingdon, | Isaac Taylor, | [211] |
| Maria Theresa, | Carlyle, | [214] |
| Meta Moller, | Letters, | [217] |
| Elizabeth Blackwell, | James Bruce, | [221] |
| Lætitia Barbauld, | Johnstone, | [224] |
| Hannah More, | Professor Craik, | [226] |
| Anna Seward, | Sir Walter Scott, | [229] |
| Catherine Cockburn, | Professor Craik, | [232] |
| Elizabeth Berkeleigh, | Temple Bar, | [236] |
| Caroline Herschel, | Professor Craik, | [240] |
| Madame D'Arblay, | Macaulay, | [242] |
| Madame Roland, | Carlyle, | [245] |
| Marie Antoinette, | Carlyle, | [248] |
| Sarah Siddons, | Cunningham, | [252] |
| Mrs Grant, | Professor Craik, | [256] |
| Elizabeth Inchbald, | Cunningham, | [260] |
| Elizabeth Hamilton, | Professor Craik, | [263] |
| Countess de Vemieiro, | Sismondi, | [267] |
| Joanna Baillie, | Professor Spalding | [269] |
| Josephine, | Alison, | [271] |
| Anne Radcliffe, | Edinburgh Review, | [273] |
| Miss Edgeworth, | Jeffrey, | [276] |
| Charlotte Corday, | Carlyle, | [279] |
| Madame de Stael, | Jeffrey, | [283] |
| Madame de la Rochejaquelein, | Jeffrey, | [286] |
| Madame Recamier, | Davenport Adams, | [290] |
| Mary Brunton, | Dr Brunton, | [293] |
| Felicia Hemans, | Jeffrey, | [297] |
| Augustina Saragoza, | Alison, | [299] |
| Charlotte Bronte, | Mrs Gaskell, | [301] |
