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| Semiramis, Queen of Assyria | [1] |
| Dido, Queen of Carthage | [10] |
| Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt | [33] |
| Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra | [95] |
| Matilda of Flanders | [110] |
| Margaret of Anjou | [120] |
| Catharine of Aragon | [137] |
| Queen Elizabeth, and Mary, Queen of Scots | [156] |
| Queen Catherine De’ Medici | [232] |
| Queen Anne | [263] |
| Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria | [283] |
| Catherine II., Empress of Russia | [302] |
| Queen Marie Antoinette | [321] |
| The Empress Josephine | [378] |
| The Empress Eugénie | [447] |
| Queen Victoria | [478] |
GIRLS’ BOOK OF FAMOUS QUEENS.
SEMIRAMIS.
2069 B.C.
“What shall I do to be forever known,
And make the age to come my own?”—Cowley.
THE name of Semiramis is associated with the story of Nineveh’s glory, and the building of the mighty city of Babylon. And though historians differ widely regarding the time of her famous reign, and some even express doubts whether she ever really existed, holding that her story was a mythological legend, her name is too illustrious to be passed over in silence, and her deeds too remarkable to be ignored, if she did in truth live; and if the story is a mere legend, it is, moreover, so interwoven with historical records as to deserve mention.