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.