Notable Women in History

Notable Women in HistoryThe lives of women who in all ages, all lands and in all womanly occupations have won fame and put their imprint on the world's history: A Group of Classic Dames: Agrippina, Aspasia, Cornelia, Cleopatra, Hypatia, Empress Theodora, Zenobia Many Queens & Some Martyrs: Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Mary Tudor, Mary Queen of Scots, Lady Jane Grey, Queen Anne, Queen Elizabeth, Catherine II of Russia, Queen Christina of Sweden, Isabella of Castile,

The lives of women who in all ages, all lands and in all womanly occupations have won fame and put their imprint on the world's history:

• A Group of Classic Dames: Agrippina, Aspasia, Cornelia, Cleopatra, Hypatia, Empress Theodora, Zenobia
  

• Many Queens & Some Martyrs: Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Mary Tudor, Mary Queen of Scots, Lady Jane Grey, Queen Anne, Queen Elizabeth, Catherine II of Russia, Queen Christina of Sweden, Isabella of Castile, Maria Theresa of Austria, Marie Antoinette, Charlotte Corday, Empress Josephine, Hortense Bonaparte Queen of Holland, Queen Louise of Prussia, Catherine de Medici, Madame Roland, Queen Victoria

• Women of Wit & Pleasure: Countess Du Barry, Countess of Blessington, Barbara Duchess of Cleveland, Madame Du Deffand, Ninon de L'Enclos, Madame Recamier, Marquise De Pompadour, Madame De Maintenon, Madame De Steel, Sarah Jennings the Duchess of Marlborough, Mlle. De La Valliere, Theodosia Burr

• Priestesses of Woman's Cause: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe, Florence Nightingale, Clara Barton, Frances E. Willard, Anne Hutchinson, Lucretia Mott, Mary Baker Eddy, Harriet Martineau

• Some Women of The Footlights: Charlotte Cushman, Nell Gwyn, Jenny Lind, Madame Ristori, Mrs. Siddons, 'Peg' Woffington, Sarah Bernhardt, Adelina Patti

• Women in Arts & Letters: Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Rosa Bonheur, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mary Ann Evans, Margaret Fuller, Charlotte Bronte, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Madame Dudevant, Madame De La Ramee, Helen Hunt Jackson, Mary Lamb, Frances Trollope

• Women Who Stand Alone: Martha Washington, Dolly Madison, Joan of Arc

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