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CONTENTS.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT.

BY LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON.

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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 For-

tane - Toilsome Years-Story-Writing - Advised to "Stick

to Teaching" Hospital Nurse - Shattered Health - Her

First Book-How "Little Women" Came to be Written - Fame

and Fortune at Last-Amusing Requests An Extraordinary

Effusion-Miss Alcott's Portrait of Herself at Fifteen - Miss

Alcott at Fifty-Incidents-Precious Memories - Methods of

Work - An Old Atlas for a Desk How She Plans Her Stories . 29

SUSAN B. ANTHONY.

BY ELIZABETH CADY STANTON.

Susan B. Anthony's Parentage - Her Girlhood-A Rebellious Qua-

ker-Incident in Her Early Life - The Heighth of Her Ambition

-A "High-Seat" Quaker-Incident in Her Experience as

Teacher - Advocating Temperance, Anti-Slavery, and Woman

Suffrage Her Facility and Power as an Orator - Speaking to a

Deaf and Dumb Audience - Incident on a Mississippi Steamboat

-Celebrating Her Fiftieth Birthday - Trip to Europe - Inci-

dents of Foreign Travel - Arrested for Voting-The Legal

Struggle that followed - Her Labors for Woman Suffrage — Her

Industry and Self-denial for the Cause - Personal Appearance

CATHERINE E. BEECHER.

BY HARRIET BEECHER STOWE.

A Leaf from Dr. Lyman Beecher's Diary - The Old Parsonage at

Miss Beecher's Early Education - Her Keen Sense

of Humor A Sprightly Poem- Lines Written on the Death of

Her Mother — Her First Published Poems "Who is this C. D.

D. ?"— Engagement to Prof. Alexander M. Fisher - Bright

Prospects for the Future - Prof. Fisher Sails for England -Ship-

wreck of the "Albion" and Death of Prof. Fisher-The Sur-

vivor's Narrative of the Shipwreck - Effect of the Distressing

News - Miss Beecher Establishes the Hartford Female Seminary

- Her Energy and Incessant Activity - Last Years of Her Life—

Her Death-- Lines Written to a Dying Friend . .

BY LUCY LARCOM.

Clara Barton's Early Life A Faithful Little Nurse at Eleven -

Devotion to Her Sick Brother - Breaking Out of the Civil War

Her Loyalty and Devotion to the Union - The Old Sixth Mas-

sachusetts Regiment - First Blood Shed for the Union - Miss

Barton's Timely Services - Consecrating Her Life to the Soldiers'

Needs At the Front - Army Life and Experiences - Her Un-

daunted Heroism - Terrible Days - Errands of Mercy - "The

Angel of the Battlefield "- Instances of Her Courage and Devo-

tion - Narrow Escapes Her Labors for Union Prisoners --

Record of the Soldier Dead - Dorrance Atwater Work After

the War-Her Visit to Europe The Franco-Prussian War —

At the Front Again - Unfurling the Banner of the Red Cross-

Record of a Noble Life

MARY LOUISE BOOTH.

BY HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD.

A Woman of Rare Intellect - Childhood of Mary Louise Booth -

An Indefatigable Little Student - Beginning of Her Literary

Life A Great Historical Work-Breaking Out of the Civil

War-Miss Booth's Sympathy with the North- Her Anxiety to

Help the Cause - How She did it A Prodigious Task - "It

Shall be Done" Marvellous Industry and Perseverance

Charles Sumner's Friendship-A Letter of Thanks from Abraham

Lincoln - Assuming the Management of "Harper's Bazaar”

A Signal Success --- A Model Paper Miss Booth's Home - True

Hospitality- Pen-portrait of a Gifted Woman.

THE DOCTORS BLACKWELL.

BY LUCIA GILBERT RUNKLE.

Early Home of the Blackwell Sisters "Little Shy" — Her Indom-

itable Pluck and Wonderful Physique-A Feat Showing Her

Strength-Death of Her Father Struggle of the Family with

Misfortune and Poverty — Elizabeth Begins the Study of Medi-

cine-How She Acquired Her Professional Education - Sur-

mounting Great Difficulties Some of Her Experiences as a

Medical Student-Graduates with High Honor - First Medi-

cal Diploma ever Granted to a Woman- A Proud Moment in

Her Life Her Sister, Emily Blackwell - Her College Life-

Battling Against Opposition Final Success Her Studies

Abroad The Two Sisters Establish Themselves in Practice in

New York-Founding the Woman's Hospital and College. 134

FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT.

BY ELIZABETH BRYANT JOHNSTON.

Mrs. Burnett's English Home-Tales of Her Childhood — Emigra-

tion to America
-A Helpless Family in a Strange Land - The

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Struggle for Subsistence - Incidents of Her Girlhood - Sym-

pathy for the Poor - How She Acquired Her Knowledge of

English Dialect- The Original "Lass o' Lowrie's" - First

Literary Efforts - Seeking a Publisher - Devising Ways and

Means Diplomacy-A Day of Triumph and Happiness-

"Who is She?"- Life at Mt. Ararat - Revisiting England-

Her Washington Home - A Thrilling Incident at Long Branch

A Heroine in Real Life Mrs. Burnett's Personal Appearance. 152

ROSE TERRY COOKE.

BY HARRIET PRESCOTt spofford.

Rose Terry Cooke's Ancestry - Her Description of an Old-Fash-

ioned Thanksgiving - Scenes in Her Childhood - A Picture of

Old New-England Life - Her Deep Love of Nature — Passion

for Flowers - School Life - Reading at the Age of Three-

Inimitable Skill in Depicting New-England Life and Character

-Her Bright Humor and Keen Sense of the Ridiculous - Begin-

ning Her Literary Career - Opening of Her Genius-A Novel

Incident in Plymouth Church - The Story of an Opal Ring -

How a Little Slave-Child was made Free A Romantic Story

- Odd Experiences with Impostors and Counterfeiters — Mrs.

Cooke's Home and Domestic Life - A Woman of Rare Genius. 174

CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN.

BY LILIAN WHITING.

Charlotte Cushman's Childhood - Her Remarkable Imitative Faculty

-First Appearance on the Stage A Scanty Stage Wardrobe -

A Friend in Need An Amusing Experience - The Struggle for

Fame Macready's Sympathy and Influence - First Visit to

Europe Waiting in the Shadow" - Début in London — A

Brilliant Triumph - Her Ability Recognized at Last in Her

Native Land-Glimpse of Her Life in Rome - Unfaltering

Patriotism - Her Munificent Gift to the Sanitary Commission ---

-The Culmination of Her Power

umph-Her Farewell to the Stage -

Bryant Miss Cushman's Response

Last Resting-Place

A Notable Dramatic Tri-

Address of William Cullen

Her Illness, Death, and

LYDIA MARIA CHILD.

BY SUSAN COOLIDGE.

The Little Maid of Medford - Her Early Life and Happy Mar-

riage-Books She has Written - Surprise and Indignation ex-

cited by Her" Appeal" - The Battle of Life - Rowing against

the Tide Her Patience, Fortitude, and Reliance - Stirring

Times-Devotion to Her Husband-Life at Wayland - Her

Bright Humor Her Sympathy for Old John Brown — Mrs.

Mason's Violent Letter- Mrs. Child's Famous Reply - She is

Promised a "Warm Reception" — Her Loyalty, Self-Denial, and

Work during the Civil War - Princely Generosity - Serene Old

Age-Death of Her Husband-Mrs. Child's Tribute to His

Memory-Waiting and Trusting — Her Death and Funeral

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BY LILIAN WHITING.

Mary Clemmer's Ancestry - Pen-portraits of Her Father and Mother

- Her Childhood-School-life and Early Education - Publishing

Her First Verses - Beginning Her Literary Career— Removal

to New York - First Newspaper Letters - Marvellous Industry

and Capacity for Work - Contracting to Write a Column a Day

for Three Years-A Chapter from Her Experiences During the

War-Vivid Description of the Surrender of Maryland Heights

-Her Journalistic Work-How she Gathers Materials for "A

Woman's Letter from Washington"-Charles Sumner's Friend-

ship—A Busy Life - Tribute to the Memory of Alice and Phœbe
Cary Mary Clemmer's Washington Home

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MARY MAPES DODGE.

BY LUCIA GILBERT RUNKLE.

New York Society Forty Years Ago-Prof. James J. Mapes -

Ideal Home - Genuine Hospitality- Mary Mapes Dodge - Her

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