Author : Mary Cowden Clarke
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781332759477
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (594 download)
Book Synopsis World-Noted Women, Or Types of Womanly Attributes of All Lands and Ages (Classic Reprint) by : Mary Cowden Clarke
Download or read book World-Noted Women, Or Types of Womanly Attributes of All Lands and Ages (Classic Reprint) written by Mary Cowden Clarke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-06-24 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from World-Noted Women, or Types of Womanly Attributes of All Lands and Ages I gladly avail myself, also, of the opportunity now presented, to offer my thanks to those friends, - some, of very recent date, and who therefore deserve the greater acknowledgment, since they assisted one comparative ly a stranger to them, - who, with kindest promptitude, helped me in pro curing such literary sources for research as my distance from old familiar native book-haunts prevented my readily obtaining. I must not omit, likewise, to assign the credit of the Joan of Arc where it is due, in stating that it has been contributed by another hand than-mine a lady of Philadelphia, widely known in the ranks of litera ture as Grace Greenwood, having supplied the memoir of that glorious but misprized heroine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.