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OF

NOBLE ENGLISHWOMEN:

LIVES MADE ILLUSTRIOUS BY HEROISM, GOODNESS,

AND GREAT ATTAINMENTS.

Edited by

CHARLES BRUCE,

EDITOR OF 'THE BOOK OF ADVenture and peril,' 'sea sonGS AND BALLADS,'
THE DIRTHDAY BOOK OF PROVERBS,' ETC. ETC.

WILLIAM P. NIMMO,

LONDON: 14 KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND;

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IT is impossible in the compass of one volume to include the names of all those Englishwomen who have become memorable by their lives, their deeds, or their words. England has been richly blessed with noble women-women who have shed a glory upon the annals of Literature, Art, and Science; women whose names have become household words, the synonyms for purity, goodness, and virtue; women who have inspired the patriot to do and dare for his country's good, the soldier to the heroic deed on the battle-field; women who, in success, have urged to. higher achievement, and in failure have been the ministering angel and consoler; women whose smile has been the sunlight of home, and whose love has been the shield for husband and child against the degradation of dishonour, and the meanness and crime of wrong-doing. Their names will never be erased from our national story; the memory of their deeds, when and wherever performed, the world will not willingly let die.

In turning over the leaves of this book, the reader will find many familiar names omitted, and many others included, who, perhaps, are equally deserving of honour, but less known; humble heroines, who waged hard and incessant warfare against cruel and adverse circumstance, yet persevering to the end. We

earnestly hope its contents will commend it to very many readers, giving both pleasure and satisfaction.

Our warmest thanks are due to those authors and publishers who have generously allowed the use of copyright material; especially would we mention the names of Miss Yonge (authoress of the Heir of Redcliffe and editor of Biographies of Good Women), Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall, Rev. E. Paxton Hood, James Hamilton, Miss Bessie Rayner Parkes, Julia Kavanagh, Messrs. Hurst & Blackett, Chatto & Windus, W. & R. Chambers, Blackie & Sons, etc. etc.

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