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Eminent Women of the Age:  Being Narratives of the Lives and Good Deeds of  the Most Prominent Women of the Present Generation

Eminent Women of the Age: Being Narratives of the Lives and Good Deeds of the Most Prominent Women of the Present Generation

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Eminent Women of the Age: Being Narratives of the Lives and Good Deeds of the Most Prominent Women of the Present Generation

by Parton, James; Greeley, Horace;

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Hartford, CT: S. M. Betts & Co.. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, plates foxed, some light soiling to . some pages.. 1869. Later Printing. Hardcover. 628 pp plus [2] pp of publisher ads. Green cloth with decorated titles stamped in gilt on front boards and spine. A compilation of short biographies of 47 Victorian era women, written by various authors. Subjects include Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emma Willard, Rosa Bonheur, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell and others. Contributors include Horace Greeley, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Fanny Fern, and John S. C. Abbott, among others. Contains 13 steel engraved portraits of some of the eminent women discussed in the text. Lacks frontispiece portrait of artist Rosa Bonheur. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

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Old Saratoga Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
41199
Title
Eminent Women of the Age: Being Narratives of the Lives and Good Deeds of the Most Prominent Women of the Present Generation
Author
Parton, James; Greeley, Horace;
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, plates foxed, some light soiling to some pages.
Edition
Later Printing
Publisher
S. M. Betts & Co.
Place of Publication
Hartford, CT
Date Published
1869
Weight
0.00 lbs
Keywords
Victorian Women, Women's History, 19th Century Women
Bookseller catalogs
Women's Studies;

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