Longford, Elizabeth

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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Women----Social conditions----Great Britain
Women----Biography----Great Britain
Women---History---Great Britain---19th century
Women---Writers


Great Britain---History---Victoria, 1837-1901

HQ1593 / .L66 1981

800.09 LON