Written by Millicent Garrett, a noted British feminist, suffragist and intellectual writer, this volume is comprised of short biographical sketches of 23 influential women from Jane Austen and Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Queen Victoria and Queen Louisa of Prussia. - Summary by Larry Wilson
Chapters
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Preface Read by Pamela Nagami 3:21
2
Mary Carpenter Read by Margaret Espaillat 21:19
3
Caroline Herschel Read by Availle 25:47
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Sarah Martin Read by Maria Kasper 13:53
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Mary Somerville Read by Availle 24:14
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Queen Victoria Read by Kathleen Moore 24:20
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Harriet Martineau Read by Pamela Nagami 26:52
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Florence Nightingale Read by Maria Kasper 21:25
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Mary Lamb Read by Gnomesb 28:37
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Agnes Elizabeth Jones Read by Michele Eaton 18:30
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Charlotte and Emily Brontë Read by BettyB 26:55
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning Read by Larry Wilson 13:48
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Lady Sale and her Fellow-Hostages in Afghanistan Read by Charbelí Ramos Chávez 28:23
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Elizabeth Gilbert Read by Maria Kasper 16:36
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Jane Austen Read by Beth Thomas (1974-2020) 15:43
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Maria Edgeworth Read by Michele Fry 39:39
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Queen Louisa of Prussia Read by BettyB 31:55
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Dorothy Wordsworth Read by Gnomesb 22:49
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Sister Dora Read by Maria Kasper 27:38
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Mrs. Barbauld Read by BettyB 15:32
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Joanna Baillie Read by Mark 9:44
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Hannah More Read by Gnomesb 30:28
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Prudence Crandall and Lucretia Mott Read by Maria Kasper 19:39
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