Heroines That Every Child Should Know: Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All AgesHamilton Wright Mabie, Kate Stephens The Floating Press, 2016 M10 1 - 285 pages From the stirring self-sacrifice of ancient Greek princess Alcestis to the battlefield heroics and later professional achievements of British nurse Florence Nightingale, this volume of biographical sketches geared toward younger readers showcases the accomplishments, virtues, and courageous feats of women throughout history. |
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... children should be fatherless. Therefore I spared not myself, though thy father and mother betrayed thee. But the gods have ordered all this after their own pleasure. So be it. Do thou therefore make this recompense, which indeed thou ...
... children should be fatherless. Therefore I spared not myself, though thy father and mother betrayed thee. But the gods have ordered all this after their own pleasure. So be it. Do thou therefore make this recompense, which indeed thou ...
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... children as a gift from me, and be as a mother to them." "O me!" he cried, "what shall I do, being bereaved of thee?" And she said: "Time will comfort thee; the dead are as nothing." But he said: "Nay, but let me depart with thee." But ...
... children as a gift from me, and be as a mother to them." "O me!" he cried, "what shall I do, being bereaved of thee?" And she said: "Time will comfort thee; the dead are as nothing." But he said: "Nay, but let me depart with thee." But ...
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... children were well, and his father also, and his mother. But of his wife he answered so that Hercules understood not that he spake of her. For he said that she was a stranger by blood, yet near in friendship, and that she had dwelt in ...
... children were well, and his father also, and his mother. But of his wife he answered so that Hercules understood not that he spake of her. For he said that she was a stranger by blood, yet near in friendship, and that she had dwelt in ...
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... children, or the old man, his father?" "Stranger, 'tis the wife of Admetus that is dead." "What sayest thou? And yet he gave me entertainment?" "Yea, for he would not, for shame, turn thee from his house." "O miserable man, what a ...
... children, or the old man, his father?" "Stranger, 'tis the wife of Admetus that is dead." "What sayest thou? And yet he gave me entertainment?" "Yea, for he would not, for shame, turn thee from his house." "O miserable man, what a ...
Contents
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V Joan of Arc | 66 |
VI Catherine Douglas | 110 |
VII Lady Jane Grey | 141 |
VIII Pocahontas | 155 |
IX Flora Macdonald | 183 |
X Madame Roland | 197 |
XI Grace Darling | 234 |
XII Sister Dora | 245 |
XIII Florence Nightingale | 268 |
Endnotes | 284 |
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