Historic Girlhoods, Part One
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About This Book
These stories in general follow the actual records of history, but in a few cases, where little was known of certain girls, the author has felt at liberty to add incidents illustrating the characters and the times.St. Catherine The Girl of Siena: 1347-1380 The old Italian city of Siena lies upon three hills, on one of which gleams the great white Cathedral, and on another perches the scarcely less commanding Church of San Domenico. In the fourteenth century underwood and hanging gardens crept up the sides of these hills, with only a narrow winding road to lead from one part of the city to anot...
Chapters (13)
- Historic Girlhoods
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- I St. Catherine The Girl of Siena: 1347-1380
- II Joan of Arc The Girl of Domremy: 1412-1431
- III Vittoria Colonna The Girl of Ischia: 1490-1547
- IV Catherine de' Medici The Girl of Mediæval Italy: 1519-1589
- V Lady Jane Grey The Girl of Tudor England: 1537-1554
- VI Mary Queen of Scots The Girl of the French Court: 1542-1587
- VII Pocahontas The Girl of the Virginia Woods: 1595-1617
- VIII Priscilla Alden The Girl of Plymouth: About 1604—after 1680
- IX Catherine the Great The Girl of Stettin: 1729-1796
- X Fanny Burney The Girl of London: 1752-1840
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