LONDON
GEORGE BELL AND SONS
1907


The following collection of short lives has been compiled as a companion volume to the “Great Englishmen,” which has already met with approval in schools. It is hoped that this will be found no less useful.


CONTENTS.

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Queen Bertha (died 606)[1]
Maude the Good (1080-1118)[8]
Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122-1204)[13]
Philippa of Hainault (1313-1369)[23]
Margaret of Anjou (1429-1480)[31]
The Lady Margaret (1441-1509)[38]
Margaret Roper (1501?-1544)[46]
Lady Jane Grey (1537-1554)[52]
Princess Elizabeth (1596-1662)[61]
Lady Rachel Russell (1636-1723)[69]
Angelica Kaufmann (1741-1807)[78]
Hannah More (1745-1833)[85]
Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845)[92]
Mary Somerville (1780-1872)[100]
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1809-1861)[110]
Florence Nightingale (born 1820)[120]

GREAT ENGLISHWOMEN.