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Miss Phelps at Sixteen Memories of the War - An Unwritten

Story-An Incident in Her School-life- Thimble or Paint-

brush, Which?" - First Literary Ventures - The Abbott Mis-

sion-"The Gates Ajar"- Its Enormous Sale and Helpful

Influence - Miss Phelps as a Lecturer — Power Over Her Audi-

ences- Her Summer Home by the Sea - Her Winter Study-

Interest in Reform Movements - Personal Work Among the

Fishermen The Strength of Her Writings

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Chapter XXV.

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE.

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BY ROSE TERRY COOKE.

Life on the Banks of the Ohio Where and

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Mrs. Stowe's Father, Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher - His Fame and Worth

-His Wife, Roxanna Foote - Mrs. Stowe's Early Training

Incidents in Her Childhood- A Famous School - Reminiscences

of Her Girlhood-Early Passion for Writing — Marriage to Prof.

Calvin E. Stowe

How She Received Her First Impressions of Slavery — What

Led to the Writing of "Uncle Tom's Cabin "

Under Which it was Written - How it was Received - Excite-

ment it Created

Mrs. Stowe's Visit to England - Her Recep-

tion-The True Story of "A Vindication of Lady Byron "

Celebrating Mrs. Stowe's Seventy-first Birthday - Her Two

Homes - Looking Toward the Other Side of Jordan

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Chapter XXVI.

Difficulties

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON.

BY LAURA CURTIS BULLARD.

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George Sand's Inquiry - Mrs. Stanton as the Originator of the

Woman Suffrage Movement ·

- Birth and Parentage - Early

Sympathies with Ill-treated Women -

Tries to be a Boy

Studies Law in Her Father's Office - Her Marriage and Wed-

ding Tour- Meets Lucretia Mott, and Decides upon a Future

Career-Calls the First Woman Suffrage Convention -

erick Douglass Her only Helper - Effect of the Convention -

Progress of the Movement Lectures and Addresses - Edits

"The Revolution "Travels in France and England - Wit

Personal Appearance and Characteristics

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Anecdotes

Future of the Cause

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Chapter XXVII.

MARY VIRGINIA TERHUNE.

("MARION HARLAND.")

BY KATE SANBORN.

A Popular Fallacy – "Marion Harland"-A Versatile and Successful

Author - A Visit to Her Home

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Her Domestic Life - A Peep

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Her Husband, Rev. Dr.

Characteristic Letter

into Her Kitchen - An Inviting Place

E. P. Terhune; the Man and His Power

from "Marion Harland"- An Interesting Bit of Autobiography

- Her Own Account of Her Early Life- Reminiscences of Her

Girlhood - Her First Book - Its Marked Success Career as a

Novelist A New Departure - Her "Cookery Books" - Their

Enormous Sale - A Boon to Housekeepers - Her Love for Little

Folks What She says about Santa Claus-Sound Advice to

Girls and Wise Words for Wives A Gifted and Famous

Woman

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Chapter

XXVIII.

MRS. A. D. T. WHITNEY.

BY HARRIET BEECHER STOWE.

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The Influence of Good Literature in the Formation of Character —

Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney · Her Childhood — Early Life and Sur-

roundings Memories of Good Old Days - Her Education and

Religious Training - Marriage - Faculty for Portraying Do-

mestic Life Why She Excels in Painting Perfect Homes -

Books She has Written Selections from Her Poems - Sympa-

thy with Young People - Gaining an Insight into Practical

Questions - The Sparkle and Humor of Her Writings — The

Soundness of their Teachings -Their Great Influence for Good

-Comparison between Her Books and Miss Edgeworth's - Ex-

tracts Illustrating their Religious Tendencies

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Anne Whitney's Girlhood - School Days - Testimony of One of Her

Teachers Her Literary Talents - Book of Poems - The Cir-

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Africa"

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cumstance that turned Her Thoughts to Art-An Interesting

Incident Beginning Her Work in Sculpture First Attempts

-Marvellous Skill-Her Statue of "Godiva "- Attention it

Attracted

"The Lotus-Eater " Studies and

Travels Abroad - "Roma" — “A Thinking Statue" Com-

mission from the State of Massachusetts Statue of Samuel

Adams - Miss Whitney's Studio - Devotion to Her Art — Work

that will Endure

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Chapter XXX.

FRANCES E. WILLARD.

from Her Diary

Pyramids-

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BY KATE SANBORN.

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An After-dinner Speech - An Amusing Incident A Southern

Clergyman's Opinion - Miss Willard's Ancestry - Memories of

Childhood's Days - Scenes from the Past Amusing Extract

Her Keen Sense of Humor - Climbing the

Genteel" Gymnastics - Paul Tucker, of New

York, Aged 184"- Miss Willard's Life-Work — Delivering Her

First Lecture

A Genuine Sensation - Enlisting in the Tem-

perance Work-Liberality and Sense of Justice Religious

Nature-Specimen of Her Oratory-Marvellous Command of

LanguageExperiences in the South A Southern Welcome

-How She is Appreciated at Home Universally Loved,

Honored, and Respected

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"It is an ungenerous silence which leaves all the fair

words of honestly-earned praise to the writer of obituary notices, and the marble worker."

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

OUR FAMOUS
FAMOUS WOMEN.

CHAPTER I.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT.

BY LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON.

Amos Bronson Alcott-His Early Life-The "Sage of Concord" - Louisa M. Alcott-Girlhood Days - High Talk and Low Diet - Her First Story - A Very Stage-Struck Young Lady-End of Her Dreams of Dramatic Glory- Seeking Her Own Fortune - Toilsome Years-Story-WritingAdvised to "Stick to Her Teaching" - Hospital Nurse-Shattered Health - Her First Book-How "Little Women" Came to be Written - Fame and Fortune at Last-Amusing Requests-An Extraordinary EffusionMiss Alcott's Portrait of Herself at Fifteen-Miss Alcott at FiftyIncidents-Precious Memories - Methods of Work-An Old Atlas for a Desk-How She Plans Her Stories - Where They are Written.

N writing of an author still living, and still busily at work, there is always a certain difficulty. We are too near at hand for perspective, and too much under the spell of a sympathetic personality to be able to anticipate the judgments of posterity. Our utmost endeavor, then, must be to make the world, so far as possible, sharers in the pleasure of personal intercourse with a gifted and remarkable woman, and to gratify to some extent the general curiosity about a general favorite. In the literature of our own country and time there are few more picturesque figures than Louisa May Alcott; since we must consider not only her own distinguished achievement, but also the surroundings of her life. Unless heredity were