Living Biographies of Famous Women

Each of the individuals featured in this book played an important role in history. Their accomplishments span a wide range of fields, from the literary and the political to the medical. They include Cleopatra; Theodora; Joan of Arc; Mary, Queen of Scots; Queen Christina; Madame de Maintenon; Charlotte Bronte; George Eliot; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Florence Nightingale; Susan B. Anthony; Frances E. Willard; Catherine Breshkovsky; Sarah Bernhardt; Isadora Duncan; Ernestine Schumann-Heink; Jane Addams; Evangeline Booth; Helen Keller; and Madame Chiang Kai-shek.