Eminent Women of the Age : Women in America from Colonial Times to the 20th Century

628pp, 4pp adverts; 14 black and white engravings. Grey cloth-covered boards, violet titles on spine. Lightly bumped spine ends and corners. Shelf wear to covers. Evidence of previously erased text on front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. No dust jacket. 8vo. Collection of short biographies drawn from life by outstanding biographers and writers who knew their subjects personally. Facsimile copy of the original which was published in 1869. Subjects include Florence Nightingale, Lydia Maria Child, Fanny Fern - Mrs Parton. Lydia Sigourney, Sarah and Amanda Gremke, Francis Gage, Queen Victoria, etc.