Eminent women: a series of sketches of women who have won distinction by their genius and achievements as authors, artists, actors, rulers, or within the precints of home.
Sally Bush.--The Brontë sisters.--Queen Victoria.--Elizabeth Barrett Browning.--Mrs. Stowe. and Uncle Tom's cabin.--Miss Alcott.--George Eliot.--Princess Louise.--Fanny Mendelssohn.--Angelica Kaufmann.--Baroness Burdett-Coutts.--Girlhood of Queen Elizabeth.--The wife of Thomas Carlyle.--The wife of Benedict Arnold.--Adelaide Proctor.--Lady Bloomfield.--The mother of Victor Hugo.--Laura Bridgman.--The wife of George Washington in her workroom at Mt. Vernon.--Madame de Staël and Napoleon Bonaparte.--The wife of Frederick the Great.--The flight of Eugénie.--Caroline Herschel