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Random Facts about Great Women
ILLUSTRIOUS WOMEN
It is not likely that any two persons would agree as to who
are entitled to the first places on the list of great women.
ILLUSTRIOUS WOMEN
Of eminent women there are Seling, wife of the Emperor
Hwang-ti, B. C. 2637, who taught her people the art of
silk-raising and weaving; Semiramis, the Assyrian Queen;
Deborah, the heroic warrior prophetess of the Israelites;
Queen Esther, who, with the counsel of her cousin, Mordecai,
not only saved the Jews from extermination, but lifted them
from a condition of slavery into prosperity and power; Dido,
the founder of Carthage; Sappho, the eminent Grecian
poetess; Hypatia, the eloquent philosopher; Mary, the mother
of Christ; Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra; the mother of St.
Augustine; Elizabeth of Hungary; Queen Elizabeth of England;
Queen Isabella of Spain; the Empress Maria Theresa; Margaret
the Great of Denmark; Catherine the Great of Russia, Queen
Victoria; Florence Nightingale; Mme. de Stael: Mrs. Fry, the
philanthropist; among authoresses, Mrs. Hemans, Mrs.
Sigourney, Mrs. Browning, "George Sand," "George Eliot," and
Mrs. Stowe; and among artists, Rosa Bonheur, and our own
Harriet Hosmer.
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