From a Miniature by Holbein in the Collection of Sam.l Rogers Esq.

WOMEN OF HISTORY:

SELECTED FROM THE
WRITINGS OF STANDARD AUTHORS.

BY THE
EDITOR OF "MEN OF HISTORY."

Biography is the most universally pleasant and universally profitable of all reading."

EDINBURGH:
W. P. NIMMO, HAY, & MITCHELL.
1890.

MORRISON AND GIBB, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH.

PREFACE.