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Title: Ten Girls from History

Author: Kate Dickinson Sweetser

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TEN GIRLS FROM HISTORY

by

KATE DICKINSON SWEETSER

Author of "Ten Boys from History," "Ten
Girls from Dickens," "Boys and Girls
from Thackeray," "Boys and Girls
from George Eliot."

[Illustration: JOAN OF ARC]

[Illustration]

New York
Duffield & Company
1912

Copyright, 1912, by
Duffield & Co.

CONTENTS

PAGE

JEANNE D'ARC: THE MAID OF FRANCE 11

VICTORIA: A GIRL QUEEN OF ENGLAND 41

SALLY WISTER: A GIRL OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 69

COFACHIQUI: AN INDIAN PRINCESS OF HISTORIC LEGEND 89

JENNY LIND: THE SWEDISH NIGHTINGALE 109

ELIZA LUCAS: A GIRL PLANTER OF THE 15TH CENTURY 123

LADY JANE GREY: THE NINE DAYS QUEEN 147

"GENTLE ANNIE": A DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT 181

MADELEINE DE VERCHERES: THE HEROINE OF CASTLE DANGEROUS 193

ADRIENNE DE LAFAYETTE: A YOUNG PATRIOT'S WIFE 267

ILLUSTRATIONS

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