Living Biographies of Famous Women

This half of the human race-many people would say the better? half-was held in subjection for thousands of years...Yet in spite of this handicap, women have presented an epic of achievement no less brilliant than that of men. This volume of Living Biographies of Famous Women presents a group of human personages who can with dignity and without apology take their place side by side with their masculine peers.

The women Henry and Dana Lee Thomas chose for this volume cover the range of accomplishments by women: Cleopatra; Joan of Arc; Mary, Queen of Scots; Charlotte Brontë; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Florence Nightingale; Susan B. Anthony; Sarah Bernhardt; Isadora Duncan; Jane Addams; Helen Keller; and Madame Chiang Kai-shek among others.