Agrippina : a wicked woman, a devoted mother --
Aspasia : the inspiration of Pericles --
Cornelia : mother of the Gracchi --
Cleopatra : the world's most famous beauty --
Hypatia : the female philosopher of Alexandria --
Empress Theodora : the great empress of the East --
Zenobia : the empress of Palmyra --
Katherine of Aragon : heroine of the most famous divorce --
Anne Boleyn : a martyred queen of Henry VIII --
Mary Tudor : "Bloody Mary," the maker of martyrs --
Mary Queen of Scots : a victim of her own intrigues --
Lady Jane Grey : a nine days' queen --
Queen Anne : commonplace queen of a majestic era --
Queen Elizabeth : "Good Queen Bess," "The Virgin Queen" --
Catherine II of Russia : the Semiramis of the North --
Queen Christina of Sweden : a royal wanderer in Europe --
Isabella of Castile : the financier of Columbus' great voyage --
Maria Theresa of Austria : the true founder of the Austrian empire --
Marie Antoinette : the diamond necklace and the guillotine --
Charlotte Corday : the avenger of Marie Antoinette --
Empress Josephine : the discarded wife of Emperor Napoleon --
Hortense Bonaparte, Queen of Holland : a milliner's apprentice and a queen --
Queen Louise of Prussia : a nation's immortal idol --
Catherine de Medici : a royal dispenser of poisons --
Madame Roland : priestess of the Revolution --
Queen Victoria : the most splendid monarch of the nineteenth century --
Countess Du Barry : the ruler of Louis XV --
Countess of Blessington : an English saloniste --
Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland : a type of vampire --
Madame du Deffand : the blind ruler of a famous salon --
Ninon de L'Enclos : a typical Parisian parasite --
Madame Recamier : the beauty of the French salons --
Marquise de Pompadour : the most splendid adventuress --
Madame de Maintenon : the wife of a hunchback and of a king --
Madame de Stael : the wit of French salons --
Sarah Jennings : the Duchess of Marlborough : "the viceroy over Queen Anne" --
Mlle de la Valliere : heroine of a royal romance --
Theodosia Burr : whose fate is an unsolved mystery --
Susan B. Anthony : a life-long champion of woman's rights --
Elizabeth Cady Stanton : a wife, mother and eminent suffragist --
Lucy Stone : a champion of liberty for slaves and for women.
Julia Ward Howe : author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic --
Florence Nightingale : the English soldier's angel of mercy --
Clara Barton : the American Florence Nightingale --
Frances E. Willard : the effective foe of intemperance --
Anne Hutchinson : an early defender of free speech --
Lucretia Mott : a Quaker preacher of freedom's truths --
Mary Baker Eddy : the founder of a new faith --
Harriet Martineau : the writer of political romance --
Charlotte Cushman : America's most famous tragedienne --
Nell Gwyn : "Pretty Nelly," the orange girl --
Jenny Lind : "the Swedish Nightingale" --
Madame Ristorie : "the Columbus of Italian dramatic art" --
Mrs. Siddons : "the tragic muse" --
"Peg" Woffington: "Queen of all hearts" --
Sarah Bernhardt : a stage idol for fifty years --
Adelina Patti : the queen of song --
Louisa May Alcott : the "Jo" of "Little women" --
Jane Austen : a brilliant chronicler of the commonplace --
Rosa Bonheur : the friend and painter of animals --
Elizabeth Barrett Browning : a poet and a poet's bride --
Mary Ann Evans : "George Eliot," England's most famous woman novelist --
Margaret Fuller : an inspired conversationalist --
Charlotte Bronte : the creator of "Jane Eyre" --
Harriet Beecher Stowe : the little woman who caused a big war --
Madame Dudevant : the "George Sand" of French fiction --
Madame de la Ramee : the "Ouida" beloved of school girls --
Helen Hunt Jackson : the Indian's devoted friend --
Mary Lamb : the gentle humorist's adoring sister --
Frances Trollope : whose book on America enraged a nation --
Martha Washington : the original "First Lady of the land" --
Dolly Madison : the White House heroine of 1812 --
Joan of Arc : seer, soldier, leader of men, martyr.

Biographical sketches of 70 famous women in history from Cleopatra to Sarah Bernhardt. Most of the sketches are of women of royalty or of women in the 19th century U.S. women's movement.

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