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 Procter--Lady Bloomfield--The mother of Victor Hugo--Laura Bridgeman--The wife of George Washington in her workroom at Mount Vernon--Madame de Staël and Napoleon Bonaparte--The wife of Frederick the Great--The flight of Eugénie--Caroline Herschel--Charlotte Cushman--Maria Mitchell--Mrs. Trollope--Adelaide Phillips--Two queens; the daughters of James II of England--An evening with Rachel--Josephine and Bonaparte--Lady Morgan--Maria Theresa--Lady Franklin--Madame de Miramion--Peg O'Neal--Mrs. L.M. Monmouth, and how she lived on forty dollars a year--Trial of Jeanne Darc, commonly called Joan of Arc--Harriet Martineau--The wife of Lafayette--Betsy Patterson, otherwise Madame Jerome Bonaparte of Baltimore--Some ladies of the old school--Toru Dutt--George Sand

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