Women of Ancient Times:—Acca Larentia, Lucretia, Agrippina, Artemisia, Aspasia, Cleopatra, Cornelia, Faustina, Messallina, Virginia, Erinna, Corinna, Sappho, Hypatia, Zenobia.

Heroines of Fiction in History: compare Kingsley’s Hypatia with the real woman, Ware’s Zenobia with the queen as she is represented by a historian in the Britannica; the women of Dumas and of Scott in their historical novels and their originals as seen in the Britannica, for instance Mary Queen of Scots as portrayed by Sir Walter in The Abbot and by Swinburne in the Britannica, Elizabeth and Amy Robsart in Kenilworth and in the Britannica, Catherine de’ Medici in Chicot the Jester and in fact; or the women of Shakespeare’s historical plays as compared with their true place in history.

Women in American political reform:—Amelia B. Bloomer, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott and Lucy Blackwell Stone.

The following is a partial list of articles in the Britannica dealing with Women, who may, for convenience, be booked under the broad head of History as distinct from Literature, the Arts and Science:—

Quite as long and much more impressive is the list of women who have produced literature—excluding the heroines of mythology and literature—on whom there are separate articles in the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Although women have appeared on the stage only in the last two centuries the list of actresses and singers on whom there are articles in the Britannica is a long one. A partial list in alphabetical order follows: