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Great Englishwomen: An Historical Reading Book for Schools

Great Englishwomen: An Historical Reading Book for Schools

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BELL’S READING-BOOKS.

CONTINUOUS NARRATIVE READERS.

Abridgements of well-known English books have been carefully made by a method of excision only, the language of the original being in all cases left intact.

Price One Shilling each.

Post 8vo. Illustrated. Strongly Bound.


Suitable for Standard III.

Adventures of a Donkey. Translated from the French.
Great Deeds in English History.
Grimm’s German Tales. (Selected.)
Andersen’s Danish Tales. (Selected.)
Great Englishmen. Short Lives for Young Children.
Great Irishmen. Short Lives for Young Children.
Life of Columbus. By S. Crompton.


Standard IV.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Swiss Family Robinson. (Abridged.)
Parables from Nature. (Selected.) By Mrs. Gatty.
Great Englishwomen. Short Lives.
Great Scotsmen. Short Lives.
The Children of the New Forest. By Captain Marryat, R.N. (Abridged.)
Edgeworth’s Tales. (A Selection.)
Lyrical Poetry. Selected by D. Monro.
The Talisman. By Sir Walter Scott. (Abridged.)


Standard V.

The Story of Little Nell. By Charles Dickens. (Abridged.)
Settlers in Canada. By Captain Marryat, R.N. (Abridged.) New Edition.
Masterman Ready. By Captain Marryat, R.N. (Abridged.) New Edition.
Gulliver’s Travels. (Abridged.)
Robinson Crusoe. (Abridged.) New Edition.
Poor Jack. By Captain Marryat, R.N. (Abridged.)
Arabian Nights.


Standards VI. and VII.

Woodstock. By Sir Walter Scott. (Abridged.)
Ivanhoe. By Sir Walter Scott. (Abridged.)
Oliver Twist. By Charles Dickens. (Abridged.)
The Vicar of Wakefield. (Abridged.)
Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare. (Selected.)
Southey’s Life of Nelson. (Abridged.)
Sir Roger de Coverley and other Essays, from the “Spectator.”
Tales of the Coast. By J. Runciman.


LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS.

 

 


GREAT ENGLISHWOMEN.

 

 

GREAT ENGLISHWOMEN

AN HISTORICAL READING BOOK
FOR SCHOOLS

 

BY

M. B. SYNGE
AUTHOR OF “GREAT ENGLISHMEN,” ETC.

 

 

LONDON
GEORGE BELL AND SONS
1907

 

 


The following collection of short lives has been compiled as a companion volume to the “Great Englishmen,” which has already met with approval in schools. It is hoped that this will be found no less useful.

 

 


CONTENTS.

  PAGE
Queen Bertha (died 606) 1
Maude the Good (1080-1118) 8
Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122-1204) 13
Philippa of Hainault (1313-1369) 23
Margaret of Anjou (1429-1480) 31
The Lady Margaret (1441-1509) 38
Margaret Roper (1501?-1544) 46
Lady Jane Grey (1537-1554) 52
Princess Elizabeth (1596-1662) 61
Lady Rachel Russell (1636-1723) 69
Angelica Kaufmann (1741-1807) 78
Hannah More (1745-1833) 85
Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845) 92
Mary Somerville (1780-1872) 100
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1809-1861) 110
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