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_b.L66 1981
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100 1 _aLongford, Elizabeth
245 1 0 _aEminent Victorian women
_c/ Elizabeth Longford
250 _a1st American ed.
260 _aNew York
_b: Alfred A. Knopf
_c, c1981.
300 _a256 p.
_b: ill.
_c; 25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _a'The sex' -- The Brontës -- George Eliot -- Florence Nightingale -- Josephine Butler -- Annie Besant -- Ellen Terry -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Mary Kingsley -- James Barry.
520 _aThe lives of certain ¨eminent¨ Victorian women are examined. Elizabeth Longford shows her subjects to be even more remarkable than they seemed to their contemporaries.
650 0 _aWomen
_z--Great Britain
_x--Social conditions
650 0 _aWomen
_z--Great Britain
_x--Biography
650 4 _aWomen
_z-Great Britain
_x-History
_y-19th century
650 4 _aWomen
_x-Writers
651 4 _aGreat Britain
_x-History
_y-Victoria, 1837-1901
942 _cMO
999 _c271377
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