Eminent Victorian women
/ Elizabeth Longford
- 1st American ed.
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf , c1981.
- 256 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'The sex' -- The Brontës -- George Eliot -- Florence Nightingale -- Josephine Butler -- Annie Besant -- Ellen Terry -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Mary Kingsley -- James Barry.
The lives of certain ¨eminent¨ Victorian women are examined. Elizabeth Longford shows her subjects to be even more remarkable than they seemed to their contemporaries.
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