Historic Girls
by Elbridge S. Brooks
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About this eBook
- Author
- Brooks, Elbridge S. (Elbridge Streeter), 1846-1902
- Title
- Historic Girls: Stories Of Girls Who Have Influenced The History Of Their Times
- Credits
- Produced by Charles Keller, and David Widger
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
- Subject
- Girls -- Biography
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 1574
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1574
- Release Date
- December 1, 1998
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.HISTORIC GIRLS — Stories Of Girls Who Have Influenced The History Of Their Times
- 2.By E. S. Brooks
- 3.PREFACE.
- 4.Contents
- 5.ZENOBIA OF PALMYRA: THE GIRL OF THE SYRIAN DESERT. — [Afterward known as “Zenobia Augusta, Queen of the East.”] A.D. 250.
- 6.HELENA OF BRITAIN: THE GIRL OF THE ESSEX FELLS. — (Afterward known as “St. Helena,” the mother of Constantine.) A.D. 255.
- 7.PULCHERIA of CONSTANTINOPLE: THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN HORN — (Afterward known as “Pulcheria Augusta, Empress of the East.”) A.D. 413.
- 8.CLOTILDA OF BURGANDY: THE GIRL OF THE FRENCH VINYARDS
- 9.WOO OF HWANG-HO.: THE GIRL OF THE YELLOW RIVER. — (Afterwards the Great Empress Woo of China.) A.D. 635.
- 10.EDITH OF SCOTLAND.: THE GIRL OF THE NORMAN ABBEY. — (Afterward known as the “Good Queen Maud” of England.) A.D. 1093.
- 11.JACQUELINE OF HOLLAND: THE GIRL OF THE LAND OF FOGS, A.D. 1414.
- 12.CATARINA OF VENICE: THE GIRL OF THE GRAND CANAL.
- 13.THERESA OF AVILA: THE GIRL OF THE SPANISH SIERRAS. — (Afterward known as St. Theresa of Avila.) A.D. 1525.
- 14.ELIZABETH OF TUDOR: THE GIRL OF THE HERTFORD MANOR.
- 15.CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN: THE GIRL OF THE NORTHERN FIORDS. — A.D. 1636.
- 16.MA-TA-OKA OF POW-HA-TAN: THE GIRL OF THE VIRGINIA FORESTS. — (Generally known as “The Princess Pocahontas.”) A.D. 1607.
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